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affyboi on July 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to ge...

Short answer is that it doesn't: it lets tree-sitter do the heavy lifting to parse everything

dataflow on July 19, 2021 [–]

Thanks! But then I guess my question is how does tree-sitter do it? I assume it has to choke on at least macros, right? Or does it call the actual compiler routines (like libclang)?

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