[cfe-dev] printing name of owning anonymous structure in RecursiveASTVisitor::VisitFieldDecl?

[Yang Chen]

Peeter Joot wrote:
> Thanks Yang,
>
> That works nicely.
>
> However, any idea why this test attempt doesn't correctly identify the 
> anonymous nature of the type:
>
>       string s ;
>       if ( r->isAnonymousStructOrUnion() )
>       {
>          const Type * RT = r->getTypeForDecl() ;
>          QualType QT = RT->getCanonicalTypeInternal() ;
>
>          s = QT.getAsString() ;
>       }
>       else
>       {
>           s = r->getName().str() ;
>       }
>
> I can work around this by using the following instead:
>
>       string s = r->getName().str() ;
>       if ( "" == s )
>       // else removed.
>
> but it seems like an odd thing to do (try to format the object as a 
> string to test an attribute).
>
> Peeter
>

I am sorry I don't know the reason. Maybe others have better ideas on it.

- Yang