[PATCH] Expose name mangling to libclang

[Argyrios Kyrtzidis]

> On Jul 29, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Argyrios Kyrtzidis <kyrtzidis at apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Eli,
> 
> +/**
> + * \brief Represents the different available ABIs for name mangling.
> + */
> +typedef enum { CXMangleABI_Itanium = 0, CXMangleABI_Microsoft = 1 } CXMangleABI;
> +
> +/**
> + * \brief Retrieve the CXString representing the mangled name of the cursor.
> + */
> +CINDEX_LINKAGE CXString clang_Cursor_getMangling(CXCursor, CXMangleABI);
> 
> Why aren’t you just using that appropriate ABI of the translation unit that was created ? So to get the MangleContext you can just call ASTContext::createMangleContext().
> 
> Hi Argyrios,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. This is an interesting idea - I guess I have been looking at it from a different angle, thinking mostly about a simple tool that uses Clang to mangle all kinds of names (think a web interface). So I was detaching standalone symbols from their containers/TUs. 
> 
> So, I suppose the same thing can be simulated with the approach you proposing, e.g. by passing a triple flag in the cmdline options to clang_createTranslationUnitFromSourceFile or something of the sort. What do you think?

Yes, sounds good to me.

> 
> Eli
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>> On Jul 28, 2014, at 6:19 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
>> Hi rsmith, rengolin,
>> 
>> Exposes a C API to name mangling for a given cursor.
>> 
>> This is loosely based on https://gist.github.com/tritao/2766291, and was previously discussed on cfe-dev: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2014-June/037577.html
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>> Adding testing capability via c-index-test.
>> 
>> http://reviews.llvm.org/D4663
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>> Files:
>>   include/clang-c/Index.h
>>   test/Index/print-mangled-name.cpp
>>   tools/c-index-test/c-index-test.c
>>   tools/libclang/CIndex.cpp
>>   tools/libclang/libclang.exports
>> 
>> Ping ?
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