[cfe-commits] [PATCH] More Docs: Mastering the Clang AST

[Joshua Cranmer]

On 7/17/2012 11:51 PM, Sean Silva wrote:
>> On the contrary, I actually like having line/column numbers so I can
> match things up with where they are in the source tree.
>
> This is usually unnecessary in my experience (at least while learning)
> because usually the stuff you feed it to be dumped will only contain
> one use of a give identifier or number, which uniquely tracks the node
> back to the source.
>
>> My attempt to do a similar thing for clang ended up failing extremely
> miserably.
>
> any diagnosis as to why it failed?
<https://github.com/jcranmer/viewsource/tree/master/native-tools> has my 
attempt to make this work. The clang tree didn't follow rigorous enough 
design standards to make scraping names possible without more than a few 
hacks, and the fact that half the methods start by declaring assertions 
means I need to have very long guard lists or actually scrape assertion 
code from building clang.

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