[cfe-dev] Code instrumentation in Clang?

[Stephen Kelly]

Robert Ankeney wrote:

> I'm trying to get up to speed on using Clang by doing a bit of dynamic
> code analysis by instrumenting C (and maybe C++) code where I take a
> source file and generate an instrumented output. I'd like to add a
> function call at the beginning of any block to mark statement coverage
> and also change all boolean expressions to call some function so I can
> track that too. For example:
> foo = a && (b || c);
> would become something like:
> foo = EXPR_AND(a, EXPR_OR(b, c));
> and thus I can track all combinations of conditions that occur.  I'd
> need to track where in the source code I am too, and save that info
> seperately.  This is a bit beyond what gcov provides.
> I'm gussing that using a RecursiveASTVisitor would be the best
> approach, but whatever approach I take, is there an easy way to output
> the C code for each node I visit?
> Any suggestions of what to look at to accomplish something like this
> would be most appreciated!
> 

TestCocoon does exactly that:

http://www.testcocoon.org/

Thanks,

Steve.