[cfe-dev] extern "C" parsing

[Douglas Gregor]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Jay L. T. Cornwall wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am porting one of our internal tools built upon the ROSE 
> source-to-source compiler to LLVM/Clang, to improve its scalability.
> 
> With the program:
> 
> extern "C" {
> typedef struct {} MyStruct;
> }
> 
> MyStruct a;
> 
> The clang driver from SVN successfully parses this. My library-based 
> interface to clang, however, gives this error:
> 
> test.cpp:5:1: error: unknown type name 'MyStruct'
> 
> The presence of an extern "C" {} block appears to hide the type. It 
> parses correctly without the block. I have set LangOptions::CPlusPlus 
> but have been unable to locate an option which controls this behaviour.

That's very strange. CPlusPlus is the only option that should matter here, because C++ name lookup involves looking into linkage specifications.

> Could you point me in the right direction?


I'm not sure where to point you. The lookup code in question is Sema::LookupName (in lib/Sema/SemaLookup.cpp). I guess you could make sure that it's performing C++ name lookup when it looks for 'MyStruct'.

Perhaps we should step back a bit, however: how are you setting up your library interface to Clang? Are you using CompilerInstance/CompilerInvocation?

	- Doug