Re: Functions setting exceptions

Hi David, Like Daniele, I also just want to express my total admiration about all aspects of your efforts: * plugin - after dehydra/dxr move to clang, gcc-python-plugin remains the only (known to me) available and *supported* scriptable plugin for gcc. Why I think this is from high importance? Compiler plugins are great opportunity itself, but real materialization of this opportunity needs "democratization" to the appropriate level for critical mass of aware developers (critical mass is usually a must for good stuff emergence to eventually happen). Python is just perfect in that respect - beautiful, one of the best known, bindings for everything needed at yum-install/pypi distance (just for the records, for someone who would suspect performance compromises: identified bottlenecks in this kind of tasks are easily resolvable using JITs - pypi:lupa (lj2+ffi) in the meantime and probably PyPy also in the future) * cpychecker - When I saw graph querying in python, my initial dump reaction was "This guy must be sort of crazy", now my opinion is just opposite - working (and already at quite good extend!) imperative prototype is the precisely right and mandatory first step towards this highly complicated problem. * plugin/cpycheker mass application over Fedora codebase: The greatest idea in recent years I ever hear - Like everything you do, current target is rather modest - cpychecks over Python packages only, but this opens the doors for another level of making the distribution: Fedora and maybe some other package bases of the same level have one unique property: they are consistent conglomerate of package versions, patch branches and dependencies. Because of that property they are automatically processable as a whole. Integration of the compiler plugin with distribution build automation opens endless surface of additional (besides current Python API usage validation) opportunities - distribution level cross reference, cross package inter procedural analysis, package specs and package build systems validation - just to name most obvious of them. David, Thank you! The only thing about I am really sorry is that because of my futility and everyday obligations I have not yet started coding the plugin application as gcc representations to DB export tool, related web interfaces and simple query results (like gcc-xml emulation, custom doc-strings parsing, etc.) :-( All the best, Alek P.S. Apologies, if because of my English, the notes above are pain to read.