[cfe-dev] AST Matchers tutorial

[Manuel Klimek]

Nice! I *love* it. I have some stuff in the pipeline that will be
pretty orthogonal to what you wrote, but I also have to simply admit
defeat to your writing :)

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Sam Panzer <panzer at google.com> wrote:
> Hello, again!
>
> As suggested by a few people, I have been writing up my experiences starting
> development on Clang, and specifically working with Clang-based refactoring
> tools. The repository where my loop converter will live doesn't exist yet,
> so I will use the tutorial as a chance to start offering patches for review
> (they can be rebased to other locations later).
>
> My intention was to begin assuming zero Clang experience and work towards
> building a slightly simplified version of the loop converter through a
> series of fully-explained patches to Clang to a unit-tested functional tool.
> Because the Getting Started page is aimed at people who want to use Clang
> rather than develop for it, I began with cloning clang+llvm from the git
> mirrors and preparing a cmake+ninja build.
>
> What I have so far is currently available as a Google Doc here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oTkVLhCdRJUEH1_LDaQdXqe8-aOqT5GLDL9e4MhoFF8/edit
> If enough people think that the tutorial is useful, I can eventually convert
> it to a nicer format (i.e. HTML with prettier code formatting). I expect to
> have made mistakes, especially in the section about obtaining and building
> Clang :)
>
> Thoughts?
> -Sam
>
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