[cfe-dev] Parsing objective-c message expressions

[steve naroff]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 8:11 AM, Rajesh Karmani wrote:

> Hi,
> I have just started looking at Clang and found it to be a great tool.
> I also came across the RewriteObjc module and wanted to play around  
> with
> how the Objective-C messages are "rewritten".
>
> I have not been able to figure out how an assignment statement like:
>
> c = [obj execute];
>
> is parsed in Clang (what functions are called?). I would like to  
> rewrite
> such statements differently from
>
> [obj execute];
>
> where nothing is being returned. Could someone please guide me which
> parts of code should I be looking at?
>
>

Here is a brief example...

snaroffBook$ cat xx.m
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>

void f(NSObject *m) {
   NSObject* c = [m execute];
}

snaroffBook$ ../../Debug/bin/clang -rewrite-objc xx.m

#include <Foundation/NSObject.h>

void f(NSObject *m) {
   NSObject* c = ((id (*)(id, SEL, ...))(void *)objc_msgSend)((id)m,  
sel_registerName("execute"));
}

The actual rewriter code is in RewriteObjC.cpp.

snaroff

> regards,
> rajesh
>
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