[cfe-dev] Life span of AST data

[Douglas Gregor]

On Sep 5, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Ilya Mirsky wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm working on a src-2-src transformer, and I want it to be as modular as possible.
> Currently I'm doing the transformations by invoking Rewriter from within ASTConsumer methods.

Good, that's the right approach.

> What I want is to have methods like: setFuncName, insertTextAfterCall etc, which will be separated from the parsing process, and could be invoked independantly. The problem is that all the data generated during the parsing (Decl, Stmt, SourceLocation) is deleted after the parsing ends.

Why can't you just perform all of the necessary operations within ASTConsumer::HandleTranslationUnit?

	- Doug