[cfe-dev] A patch for printing policy and other stuff

[Eli Friedman]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Olaf
Krzikalla<Olaf.Krzikalla at tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Hi @clang,
>
> find attached a new patch considering the comments (includin Ted's).
>
> Chris Lattner schrieb:
>>
>> Also, is there some way that you can expose the new printing style through
>> to the command line?
>
> Hmm, as far as I can see the printing policy is not customized by the
> command line yet. This is related to the fact that PrintingPolicy objects
> are constructed here and there even if one exists in the ASTContext. I think
> that the PrintingPolicy object in ASTContext has to be used consequently to
> expose printing style options through to the command line. That said one
> could think of making the PrintingPolicy ctor private and ASTContext a
> friend of PrintingPolicy. However this might be a too strict restriction
> (but not IMO).

You can expose it as an option for -ast-print mode pretty easily.

-Eli