In interactive C++ it is convenient to roll back to a previous state of the
compiler. For example:
clang-repl> int x = 42;
clang-repl> %undo
clang-repl> float x = 24 // not an error
To support this, the patch extends the functionality used to recover from
errors and adds functionality to recover the low-level execution infrastructure.
The current implementation is based on watermarks. It exploits the fact that
at each incremental input the underlying compiler infrastructure is in a valid
state. We can only go N incremental inputs back to a previous valid state. We do
not need and do not do any further dependency tracking.
This patch was co-developed with V. Vassilev, relies on the past work of Purva
Chaudhari in clang-repl and is inspired by the past work on the same feature
in the Cling interpreter.
Co-authored-by: Purva-Chaudhari <purva.chaudhari02@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Vassil Vassilev <v.g.vassilev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Zhang <jun@junz.org>
Jun Zhang