Taras’ Blog

Squash may now be ready as a class member renaming tool for early adopters. I would like people to use me as a frontend to squash. Email me your requests for renames and I will reply with giant patches. This way squash can be immediately useful. Plus I can fix bugs in squash and figure [...]

Out-param Rewriting Work Since the last post I worked on rewriting functions that use out-parameters to use return values instead. I got as far as rewriting method definitions and simple call sites, but decided to hold off further work until the rest of squash is more complete. Squash Development Roadmap Robert O’Callahan helped me devise [...]

Squash Milestone Reached Squash can now produce a patch that squashes my testcase class nsCSSLoaderImpl into the nsICSSLoader interface such that the resulting code compiles, links and runs! Gory Details Patching function bodies turned out easier than expected. Since the last post, I’ve added the ability to rewrite variable declarations, casts and static method calls. [...]