[cfe-dev] Chaining multiple AST consumers

[moataz ragab]

Kindly ignore option 4. After rethinking it doesn't make sense.


On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, moataz ragab <mtzrgb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to pre-process the AST before I do actual analysis on it. For
> example I would like to normalize loops first.  I have three solutions in
> mind
>
> 1) I know that I can write the AST to a file after processing and read it
> again. But that will make the process complicated and slower
> 2) I can add the code as separate functions in the ASTConsumer that I will
> use but that will limit the reusability of the loop normalization.
> 3) I can make loop normalization code in a StmtVisitor and call it when I
> reach function body. but that will make a separate traversal of the AST
> tree.
> 4) Make a separate ASTConsumer. but in this case I need to enable ParseAST
> to handle multiple consumers (maybe by passing a vector of the ASTConsumers)
> and having ParseAST call them one after the other but that will require
> modifying the Clang builtin function ParseAST plus I am not sure if there
> might be other issues involved (Do I have to worry about the context? I am
> not changing the types)
>
> Is option 4 a viable option? Do you have another option?
>
> Thanks,
> Moataz
>
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