[cfe-commits] [PATCH] [clang.py] Refactor how ctypes functions are registered

Gregory Szorc gregory.szorc at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 21:58:51 PDT 2012


Author: gps
Date: Wed Jul 11 23:56:46 2012
New Revision: 160106

On 7/10/12 6:28 AM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> New patch fixes formatting per Manuel's feedback in another email.
>
> My +1 stands.
>
>> On 6/25/12 12:47 AM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
>>
>> +    #lib.clang_annotateTokens.argtype = [TranslationUnit, POINTER(Token),
>> +    #                                    c_uint, POINTER(Cursor)]
>>
>> Is this intentionally commented out?
>>
>> In general, I like the patch - it's pretty straight forward, so the biggest
>> concerns would be high level.
>> Perhaps you can loop in whoever originally designed the API for an opinion
>> :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> /Manuel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been wanting to do this for a while: this patch refactors how the
>>> libclang functions are registered in the Python bindings.
>>>
>>> Instead of creating a separate symbol for each libclang function, we
>>> perform the ctypes magic directly on an instance of the libclang
>>> library. Things are defined in a function in the rare case someone
>>> wants to have multiple handles to the libclang library.
>>>
>>> This increases the cohesion between libclang and the Python bindings
>>> and IMO makes the Python easier to read since you don't need to
>>> maintain a mapping from the Python function name to the libclang
>>> function name.
>>>
>>> Since this deletes symbols from the module, this is technically
>>> backwards incompatible. But, I would argue that people should never
>>> have been using these symbols directly (they offer little benefit
>>> without the classes in the module).
>>>
>>> This will bit rot the compilation database patch that is pending
>>> review on this list. I don't like bit rotting people, so I may hold
>>> off landing this until after that patch.
>>>
>>> There is a high risk of typos in this patch. The nose tests all pass,
>>> but our test coverage isn't perfect.
>>>
>>> Some function definitions from missing features (tokens, resource
>>> usage) are commented out because I cherry-picked this patch from my
>>> personal branch and these features were implemented in that branch
>>> before this patch. I'll simply remove the comments once those
>>> corresponding features land (which will be shortly, I hope).
>>>
>>> Gregory
>>>
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