Google Summer of Code (GSoC) offers students stipends to participate in open source projects during the summer. This year, I was accepted to work on the Clang C++ Modernizer, a project formerly known as the C++11 Migrator, driven by a team at Intel. The goals of the tool are to modernize C++ code by using the new features of new C++ standards in order to improve maintainability, readability and compile time and runtime performance. The project was featured in the April blog post “Status of the C++11 Migrator” and has been evolving since, both in terms of architecture and features.
This article presents the improvements made to the tool in the last few months, which include my work from this summer for GSoC. For a complete overview of the tool and how to install it, please visit the documentation: http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-modernize.html#getting-started. For a demonstration of the tool you can take a look at the Going Native 2013 talk given by Chandler Carruth: The Care and Feeding of C++'s Dragons. clang-modernize is featured starting at ~33min.
