Re: [PATCH 0/3] single-binary: compile hw/intc/arm* files once

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 at 17:31, Pierrick Bouvier
<pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/1/25 1:34 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 at 19:30, Pierrick Bouvier
> > <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> wrote:
> >> Regarding the "modern" completion support, I recommend you take a look
> >> at it. Even though you wrote or reviewed most of the code you navigate
> >> in everyday, and thus don't need it, it has become a standard tool for
> >> any developer, like sanitizers or omniscient debugging. It's especially
> >> interesting since those tools are based on compilers (clangd is the
> >> standard for C/C++ nowadays) and not a bunch of clunky regexps.
> >> It's even more interesting when you learn a new language, like Rust.
> >
> > I do actually have clangd enabled at the moment in emacs:
> > but my experience is not good, because typically what happens
> > is that clangd runs itself out of memory and falls over
> > fairly frequently, or it produces obscure error messages like
> > "LSP :: Error from the Language Server: trying to get AST for
> > non-added document (Invalid Parameter)"...
> >
> > So I mostly continue to investigate code the way I always have
> > done, with grep.
> >
>
> By any chance, are you using an old version of clangd (or an old
> distro)? It has been a few years since I didn't run into any issue with
> it, and it's quite easy to update it using llvm apt repositories without
> updating your whole system [1].

I use the Ubuntu 24.04 version. In general I try to avoid
using tooling that isn't packaged by the distro: it
tends to result in headaches later on.

-- PMM