[cfe-dev] Message send to super

[Steve Naroff]

Hi David,

As Chris said, this isn't great. The AST reflects a "quick hack" to  
avoid making API changes (which required more thought). I should have  
put a FIXME in the code.

Are you going to clean this up? If not, I am happy to put it on my  
todo list.

Let me know,

snaroff

On May 2, 2008, at 5:15 PM, David Chisnall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It appears that, in generating the AST, the following expression:
>
> [super msg];
>
> is being translated to:
>
> [(superclass*)self msg];
>
> Running clang -ast-print confirms this.  These two expressions have
> completely different semantics in Objective-C, and since there appears
> to be no way of determining whether the user actually performed a cast
> on self (which is uncommon, but does happen in real code) or sent a
> message to super (which happens a lot more frequently).
>
> Can anyone suggest a way of distinguishing these two?  If not, is it
> possible to introduce a separate kind of AST node, or a flag in the
> ObjCMessageExpr indicating if super is the receiver?  I have now
> written the code to produce the correct output for the GNU runtime
> with this kind of expression, but am currently unable to connect it to
> anything.
>
> David
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