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

[Sean Silva]

I think that this document would be better titled "Introduction to the
Clang AST", because that's really what it is. For me, "mastering"
implies that the person reading it is already "proficient", which does
not appear to be the target of this document.

--Sean Silva

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
> 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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