[cfe-dev] [RFC] Removing libclang APIs to traverse the comment AST

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Or we could only return the first paragraph.  Faking a paragraph
>> >> requires creating AST nodes, which requires memory allocation on the
>> >> ASTContext, which is permanent.
>> >
>> > Why not create it on demand in "freeable" storage?
>>
>> There is no API to free a CXComment node, because it is supposed to
>> represent an real AST node, which is allocated on ASTContext.
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>
> Can't you allocate it on the CXTranslationUnit (or whatever the relevant
> nearby "context" object is that is explicitly created/destroyed)?

There is no difference, because the lifetime of these contexts is the same.

Dmitri

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