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> Hi! I see you're using compile_commands.json. How are you handling header files? I've found that header files present problems for compile_commands since a number of tools using compiler_commands (like bear) only look at the compiler commands for .c files, and don't notice that the header files should be added as well.

When a cc file is indexed cquery will index the associated header files. There is some logic to deduplicate multiple header file parsing so it only happens once, but that is fundamentally how it works. cquery then knows which header files are associated to which cc files.

> I know that some tools, like YCM, attempt to intelligently map a header file to it's associated .cpp/.cc/.c file to guess what the compiler commands are, but this doesn't always work.

cquery does this as well, because you can, for example, create a new file that is not in compile_commands.json. cquery has sophisticated logic here, as it will also try to infer if the file is test or platform specific (use general postfix matching) as those often have a very different set of arguments.

> What is the state of generating compiler_commands.json for Chromium? I remember running into this issue a few years back.

Chrome compiles using ninja, which natively supports compile_commands.json, so generating the file works well and is easy to do. I have not run into any issue here.