[cfe-dev] FunctionDecls by typedef crash the C++ front-end

[Argiris Kirtzidis]

Chris Lattner wrote:
>
> Two options here.  The best is probably for the C++ front-end to 
> create the parm var decls in this case, to be consistent with "void 
> f(int);".  The typedef shouldn't affect the AST generated other than 
> the pretty type.

If the C++ front-end could be changed to handle the no-parmvardecl case, 
it would also work in the case that not producing them is common.
In general I think there should be some convention, whether they are 
produced or not should be the same for both front-ends. Producing them 
for C++ and not for C is more confusing.

-Argiris

>
> Long term, I'd love to get rid of parm var decls in the common case.  
> They are needed for stuff like this in C:
>
> void f(int i, int x[i*42]);
>
> etc.  However, this is obviously not the common case, and most clients 
> don't care about parmvardecls in function prototypes.  Considering 
> that tons of headers have lots of function prototypes, I think this 
> would be a big win.  This isn't a particularly high priority though,
>
> -Chris
>