Preprocessing meta-issue

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#2,426 opened on Feb 28, 2023 3 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Description

This issue keeps track of all the bindgen issues related to preprocessing directives. The two most common reasons for these issues are the following:

libclang doesn't have a "good enough" API to implement all the desired features.
rust-cexpr cannot evaluate certain expressions.

However, this is not an exhaustive list and there might be more issues blocking these.

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First steps

Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked issues, especially 2394, 2420, and 2402, to understand the individual preprocessing problems and their blockers. This meta-issue is complete when the related work is resolved or otherwise tracked with an updated status here.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack: rust
Domain: tooling
Issue type: Feature
Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Activity status: Stale
Clarity: Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness: 20/100