[cfe-dev] Options for tagging function in source

[Sebastian Dreßler]

Hi,

I'm investigating possible solutions for tagging one or more functions 
of interest within C / C++ source code. By using clang I'd like to get 
the name of the tagged function. I "only" have two requirements:

- Not much more code required for tagging (best case is a one-liner)
- Implementation should be a clang plugin

So far there are three ideas how to achieve this:

1. Use #pragma tag <NameOfTag>. This would be the preferred solution, 
but as far as I have seen clang does not support #pragma plugins. Or is 
this information wrong and plugins for pragmas can be done somewhow?

2. Use __attribute__. Here I'm not sure whether, e.g.

     void foo(args) __attribute__((tag <NameOfTag>))

is usable within clang, since I wasn't able to implement this for 
instance by using hasAttr() within a ASTConsumer, the return value is 
always false.

3. Use a label, e.g. tag_<NameOfTag>:. Right now this is the solution 
I'm using, but here I have to ensure that no one re-uses this label 
which is rather hard to achieve, although I assume that no one uses 
labels within C / C++ these days, but you never know.

So, maybe I'm missing something (or my assumptions are wrong) and it 
would be nice to get some feedback regarding this.


Thanks,
Sebastian


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