[cfe-dev] Understanding Clang parsing

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Charles Davis wrote:

> On 3/3/10 9:15 PM, kalyan ponnala wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> Could you tell me what's a Qualtype in detail. How does it save space
>> for representing different types ?
> A QualType holds a pointer to a Type object as well as qualifiers such
> as 'const', 'volatile', and 'restrict'. This way, we don't have to have
> separate Type objects for 'int', 'const int', 'volatile int', 'const
> volatile int', etc.

This is a useful resource:
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/InternalsManual.html

-Chris