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

[Manuel Klimek]

Any comments on the content of the doc, or do you guys think it's fine
to go in? :)

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
> It may be possible to do this more simply by looking at just
> RecursiveASTVisitor and properly understanding the couple patterns it
> uses to traverse the whole AST.
>
> --Sean Silva
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Joshua Cranmer <pidgeot18 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Cranmer
>> News submodule owner
>> DXR coauthor
>>
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