[cfe-dev] Finding all references to a function overload or type.

Manuel Klimek klimek at google.com
Wed Nov 21 01:10:03 PST 2012


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Holtgrewe, Manuel <
manuel.holtgrewe at fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>  ping
>
>  Maybe I should elaborate a bit further.
>
>  Given the program [1] (written as a string in the test), I would like to
> find out from which contextes the function overload bar(Foo<T, Tick> const
> &) is called.
>
>  I tried dumping parts of the AST and from that it appears that it is not
> directly possible to see the instantiation points. Is it possible to see a
> "concrete AST" with instantiated class and function templates?
>

What's your "key" for the overload of bar in this case?
Possible keys:
a) the location of the function declaration / definition
b) the parameter list

Cheers,
/Manuel


>
>  Thanks,
> Manuel
>
>  [1]
> https://github.com/holtgrewe/func_references/blob/master/src/test.cpp#L114
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] on
> behalf of Holtgrewe, Manuel [manuel.holtgrewe at fu-berlin.de]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2012 9:11 AM
> *To:* cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
>
> *Subject:* Re: [cfe-dev] Finding all references to a function overload or
> type.
>
>   Thank you for your answer.
>
>  I was able to write a small test program with an RecursiveASTVisitor [1]
> by using some example code I found on github.
>
>  However, now I'm stuck. I could not find out how to find out that the
> function overload bar(Foo<int, Tick> const &) is called from the AST.
>
>  Can someone help me with this and point me into the right direction
> again?
>
>  Thanks,
> Manuel
>
>  [1] https://github.com/holtgrewe/func_references/blob/master/src/test.cpp
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Manuel Klimek [klimek at google.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:12 PM
> *To:* Holtgrewe, Manuel
> *Cc:* cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [cfe-dev] Finding all references to a function overload or
> type.
>
>   On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Holtgrewe, Manuel <
> manuel.holtgrewe at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to use the clang infrastructure (libclang, libtooling, ...)
>> to find all references to a function overload or a type in a program. This
>> should also work if the program has templates.
>>
>> Consider the following example:
>>
>> void f(int i)
>> {}
>>
>> template <typename T>
>> void f(T x)
>> {
>>   X<T> y;
>> }
>>
>> template <typename T>
>> struct X
>> {};
>>
>> template <>
>> struct X<long>
>> {};
>>
>> main ()
>> {
>>   f(3.0);
>>   f(1);
>>   f(1l);
>>
>>   return 0;
>> }
>>
>> For example, I would like to find all occurences of the overload "void
>> f(int i)" (result should be the line with "f(1)" or all occurences of the
>> specialization "X<long>" (in the line with "X<T> y" when f is called with a
>> long value.
>>
>> Is this possible with clang? If so, can anyone point me in the right
>> direction?
>>
>
>  Yes. Start here: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html
>
>  Cheers,
> /Manuel
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Manuel
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