[cfe-dev] Displaying prototype tooltips in an IDE

[Argyrios Kyrtzidis]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Jared Low wrote:

> I do need the parameter info. 
> 
> clang_getCursorDisplayName returns "void VarArgFunc(int, ...)", and I want to display the name of the parameters too: "void VarArgFunc(int p1, ...)" 
> 
> Your suggestion did help me, however. I didn't realize that clang_getCursorDisplayName provided the parameter types. So I can use that to figure out if the function has a variable argument or not. 

...or you can improve clang_getCursorDisplayName so that it adds the parameter names ? :-)

> 
> Thanks for the help. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:        Argyrios Kyrtzidis <akyrtzi at gmail.com> 
> To:        Jared Low <jared.low at ni.com> 
> Cc:        cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu 
> Date:        08/23/2011 09:15 PM 
> Subject:        Re: [cfe-dev] Displaying prototype tooltips in an IDE 
> 
> 
> 
> Is clang_getCursorDisplayName on the function sufficient for your purposes or you need the parameter info ? 
> 
> On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Jared Low wrote: 
> 
> We are using Clang as our compiler, and I want to display prototype tooltips in the IDE. I'm using libclang to get various source code browsing information. 
> 
> In order to get the prototype information, I create the translation unit with clang_createTranslationUnit. Then I traverse the translation unit with clang_visitChildren. Whenever I come upon a cursor of kind CXCursor_FunctionDecl, I remember the cursor and then add any cursors of kind CXCursor_ParmDecl that follow to a parameter list. Then when I want to display the function prototype, I go thru the parameter cursor list, getting each parameter's type and name. 
> 
> This seems to work fine, except for variable argument functions. For example, for the function 
> 
> void VarArgFunc(int p1, ...) 
> { 
>        va_list        parmInfo; 
>        va_start(parmInfo, p1); 
>        va_end(parmInfo); 
> } 
> 
> when traversing the translation unit with clang_visitChildren, the CXCursorVisitor callback is not called for the '...' variable argument parameter. This means that I can't tell that the function has a variable argument parameter, and when I show the prototype tooltip, it just shows "void VarArgFunc(int p1)". 
> 
> How can I detect that the function has a variable argument parameter? Is there some other better way to get this information? 
> 
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