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Hi,<br>
TreeTransform is part of the "curiously recurring template
pattern" used all around in clang.<br>
You could define your own transformation that uses that pattern. It
is very efficient because it<br>
allows to have sort-of inheritance without having vtables.<br>
Example code you can find in:<br>
/lib/Sema/SemaTemplateInstantiate.cpp<br>
/lib/Sema/SemaTemplateDeduction.cpp<br>
/lib/Sema/SemaTemplate.cpp<br>
However, TreeTransform is not public interface...<br>
<br>
There were a lot of changes in it recently and maybe my experience
is old-dated but<br>
I tried to use it once and I had hard time when I wanted to replace
one node with 2 or more <br>
nodes or when I tried to remove nodes. For 1:1 transformation I
think is very good interface, though.<br>
<br>
Talking about optimizations: Have you consider the LLVM bitcode - it
is SSA based and IMHO<br>
is much more suitable for optimizations?<br>
<br>
Vassil<br>
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Hello Vasil,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your detail explanation. The main thing what I
want to do is AST level optimization. But before
implementing optimizations, I need to transform the
resulting AST which is build by clang after parsing the
given source code. That mean i want to transform this AST to
another AST. Later it will be easy to implement
optimizations on the new AST. When i read clang source
files, I got TreeTransformation.h file. I thought that there
is tree to tree transformation that is already implemented
inside clang. But I couldn't get the implementation. Now am
getting information from you guys that this file is just a
facility or base for implementation other transformations.
So, this is good information that I got from you guys. Now
am going to do the transformation by my self and
implementing optimizations later on. If there was
implemented tree to tree transformation, i don't need to go
implement tree transformation. <br>
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Hope you got my idea. It is just my ideal design and didn't
go further. I will start the tasks soon. Do you have any
idea or suggestion how to go? Thanks again.<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi,<br>
TreeTransform is the facility used to rebuild the
templated nodes of the AST once<br>
clang has the full type/value information (for example at
instantiation time). It replaces<br>
the nodes that are marked as of dependent type with their
actual instantiation type and<br>
performs the semantic checks with the new types.<br>
<br>
Maybe if you clarify a little bit more (and perhaps give
examples) I can be more helpful.<br>
In general TreeTransform is not meant to implement every
possible tree-to-tree transformation.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, it can be used as model how to build your own
one. Right now I am not aware of<br>
an interface that implements arbitrary tree-to-tree
transformation. <br>
However, there are couple of interfaces that you might find
useful for that. You might want to<br>
have a look at clang::ASTConsumer, clang::SemaConsumer and
clang::RecursiveASTVisitor<br>
<br>
Depending on what is the exact idea of the transformation
you could also use clang's <br>
rewrite subsystem, which is pretty powerful, but it AFAIK it
doesn't work on AST level. It is more<br>
source-to-source transformation.<br>
<br>
Vassil
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I have seen tree transformation in
clang(TreeTransform.h). This is to transform one
AST to another AST. But it is not clear for me
how they used this header file for the
transformation. I didn't see the function for
the transformation. Just they used this header
file for semantic template instantiation and
template deduction. Even there is no explicit
command line option for the transformation. Do
you guys think that the transformation is well
implemented and documented? please let me know
if you have any idea about the transformation
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