[cfe-dev] Missing info from TypeLoc?

[Vane, Edwin]

Is there an API I can re-use to parse the specifiers or at least get me part of the way toward what I need?

From: metafoo at gmail.com [mailto:metafoo at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Richard Smith
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:01 PM
To: Vane, Edwin
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Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] Missing info from TypeLoc?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Vane, Edwin <edwin.vane at intel.com<mailto:edwin.vane at intel.com>> wrote:
Hi all,

Given this c++ code:

const MyType *a;

The TypeSourceInfo from the VarDecl provides a TypeLoc that claims the type starts at "MyType" not "const". Is this by design or is there a bug here?

QualifiedTypeLoc does not store location information for the type qualifiers. This is "intentional" but clearly not ideal for tooling clients of type location information. Since the decl-specifiers for such a declaration can be in any order, the source range for such a type isn't necessarily going to be useful, and you may be able to get the information you're looking for by just looking at the start location of the Decl.
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