[cfe-dev] manipulating @llvm.var.annotation in AST?

[John McCall]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Is there anyway to manipulate @llvm.var.annotation at the AST level?
> 
> In the source file you could do something like
>         __attribute__((annotate("
> GlobalValAnnotation")));

This becomes an AnnotateAttr on the VarDecl.  There's nothing stopping you from adding this to an AST, as long as you obey the syntactic constraints on the operand.

John.