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<p class="MsoNormal">I am new to both clang AST Matchers. From an AST Matcher in a clang tidy check, what is the fastest way to get the enclosing function or method scope (if any) from a matching CallExpr node?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried something like this in clang-query and it seems to work as expected:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="CodeBlock" style="background:#F2F2F2"> clang-query> match callExpr(hasAncestor(functionDecl().bind(“contextFuncDef”)).bind(“someFuncCall”)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But how does it work internally? Specifically, will it traverse up the AST to bind contextFuncDef every time callExpr is matched? That may be too expensive for my use. Or alternatively, does it save the matching ancestor in contextFuncDef
as it descends down the AST?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or the more general question would be: are matchers evaluated inside-out or outside-in or in some other way depending on the type of matcher. Is there any documentation outside of source code describing how matchers are implemented?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Viner Hand ITC";color:black">-Riyaz<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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