[cfe-commits] [PATCH] StringRef'ize API: clang::Token::getName()

[Chris Lattner]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Zach Wheeler wrote:

> Token::getName() doesn't appear to be used presently, but it could (and perhaps should) be used on line 159 of lib/Lex/Preprocessor.cpp -- use "Tok.getName()" instead of "tok::getTokenName(Tok.getKind())".
> 
> Token::getName() just calls tok::getTokenName(); perhaps the former should return StringRef (since Token is an abstraction), and the latter should return const char* (since tok::getTokenName() is merely a procedure which returns a string constant)?
> 
> Maybe this particular issue doesn't matter enough to worry about all this though.

Changing TokenKinds.h to return a stringref isn't compelling to me, but I'm not opposed to it.  Changing the method in Token.h requires moving it out of line, adding the #include, or *removing it*.  I vote for the later :)

-Chris

> 
> Thanks for your patience. :-)
> 
> ZJ
> 
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 25, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Zach Wheeler wrote:
> 
>> This patch is intended to change clang::Token::getName()  so that it returns llvm::StringRef instead of const char*.
>> 
>> This is my first patch (ever), so if I did something I wasn't supposed to, just scream at me and I'll try to fix it. :-)
>> 
>> This turned out to be an easy place to start; the doxygen reference indicates that this method isn't referenced at all. Clang built fine with these changes.
> 
> Hi Zach,
> 
> This is a great start, but I'd prefer to not change these: if they aren't called at all, please send in a patch to nuke them :).  Also, since these are just returning constant C strings, a "const char*" is actually good enough.  The places that we'd like to convert to StringRef are ones that are manually implementing the same thing (by taking two const char*'s, or a pointer+size).
> 
> Thanks again for working on this area!
> 
> -Chris
> 
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> ZJ
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Index: include/clang/Basic/TokenKinds.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- TokenKinds.h	(revision 133818)
>> +++ TokenKinds.h	(working copy)
>> @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
>>  #ifndef LLVM_CLANG_TOKENKINDS_H
>>  #define LLVM_CLANG_TOKENKINDS_H
>>  
>> +namespace llvm {
>> +  class StringRef;
>> +}
>> +
>>  namespace clang {
>>  
>>  namespace tok {
>> @@ -53,7 +57,7 @@
>>  ///
>>  /// The name of a token will be an internal name (such as "l_square")
>>  /// and should not be used as part of diagnostic messages.
>> -const char *getTokenName(enum TokenKind Kind);
>> +llvm::StringRef getTokenName(enum TokenKind Kind);
>>  
>>  /// \brief Determines the spelling of simple punctuation tokens like
>>  /// '!' or '%', and returns NULL for literal and annotation tokens.
>> 
>> Index: lib/Basic/TokenKinds.cpp
>> ===================================================================
>> --- TokenKinds.cpp	(revision 133818)
>> +++ TokenKinds.cpp	(working copy)
>> @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>>  //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
>>  
>>  #include "clang/Basic/TokenKinds.h"
>> -
>> +#include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
>>  #include <cassert>
>>  using namespace clang;
>>  
>> @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
>>    0
>>  };
>>  
>> -const char *tok::getTokenName(enum TokenKind Kind) {
>> +llvm::StringRef tok::getTokenName(enum TokenKind Kind) {
>>    assert(Kind < tok::NUM_TOKENS);
>> -  return TokNames[Kind];
>> +  return llvm::StringRef(TokNames[Kind]);
>>  }
>>  
>>  const char *tok::getTokenSimpleSpelling(enum TokenKind Kind) {
>> 
>> Index: include/clang/Lex/Token.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- Token.h	(revision 133818)
>> +++ Token.h	(working copy)
>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>>  #include "clang/Basic/TokenKinds.h"
>>  #include "clang/Basic/SourceLocation.h"
>>  #include "clang/Basic/OperatorKinds.h"
>> +#include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
>>  #include <cstdlib>
>>  
>>  namespace clang {
>> @@ -145,7 +146,7 @@
>>      setAnnotationEndLoc(R.getEnd());
>>    }
>>  
>> -  const char *getName() const {
>> +  llvm::StringRef getName() const {
>>      return tok::getTokenName( (tok::TokenKind) Kind);
>>    }
>>  
>> 
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