This change should fix the random hangs and segfaults when using the clang
completer. Also, assertion errors printed to the console on vim exit should go
away too, same thing with segfaults on vim exit. These "on exit" errors were
caused by not cleanly shutting down the background threads; both the identifier
completer and the clang one now join the threads on destruction. This results in
a clean shutdown.
The new clang completer architecture now uses only one clang thread (again)
instead of a completion and parsing thread. Since the parsing task needs to wait
on the completion task if it was started first (and vice-versa) there's no point
to using two threads. The desired "simplicity" of using two threads for these
two tasks actually created needless complexity (and bugs). Sigh. Such is life.
A TranslationUnit abstraction was also created and this in turn also reduces the
complexity of the clang completer.
The clang completer now also has some (very) basic tests.
The user can opt-out of this, but we set it by default since most people don't
know that the option exists. Those that are annoyed by it can just toggle an
option in their vimrc.
This should help catch cases where the user jumps to an identifier and then
edits it in place; we want to add that new ident to the db ASAP because the user
may want to have it completed soon.
Still, we're not perfect. If the user just deletes chars with 'x' or 'd' in Vim
and therefore never even enters insert mode we are obviously not going to pick
up that identifier until the next full file sweep.
This makes the whole plugin much faster since we now don't need to serialize and
deserialize the return values from python funcs before we can use them in Vim.
Oh God I've been waiting for something like this for so long... using this also
forces us to demand vim 7.3.584 or higher.
First off, we don't block the GUI thread anymore for ClangCompleter (that was
always temporary). Secondly, now ClangCompleter will cache the data coming from
clang so that query-based filtering of members is fast.
