[cfe-dev] RFC: Easier AST Matching by Default
Stephen Kelly via cfe-dev
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Dec 20 12:51:53 PST 2019
Hi,
Aaron Ballman and I met by chance in Belfast and we discussed a way
forward towards making AST Matchers easier to use, particularly for C++
developers who are not familiar with the details of the Clang AST.
For those unaware, I expanded on this in the EuroLLVM conference this
year, and then expanded on it at ACCU:
https://steveire.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/the-future-of-ast-matching
One step in the process of getting there is changing the default
behavior of AST Matchers to ignore invisible nodes while matching using
the C++ API, and while matching and dumping AST nodes in clang-query.
I think this is the most important change in the entire proposal as it
sets out the intention of making the AST Matchers easier to use for C++
developers who are not already familiar with Clang APIs.
To that end, I've written an AST to motivate the change:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Z6gAwwc3HoRXvsy0OdwU0X5MFQEuiGeSu3i6ICOB90
We're looking for feedback before pressing forward with the change. I
already have some patches written to port clang-tidy and unit tests to
account for the change of default.
Thanks,
Stephen.
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