[cfe-dev] -ast-dump-xml flag

[Philip Reames]

Would it be worthwhile to write a tool which uses the API and generates 
the previous XML format?  This seems like both a useful forward 
migration path for existing users and a nice demonstration of how to use 
the programmatic APIs.

Philip

On 04/21/2014 04:41 PM, Alp Toker wrote:
> Hi Spyros,
>
> XML dumping features have been removed because they were made 
> redundant by clang's library architecture.
>
> The preferred way to consume AST programmatically is via libclang. You 
> could process this and emit XML from your application if needed.
>
> For debugging you can also use the textual -ast-dump but be aware it 
> may be missing bits.
>
> Alp.
>
>
> On 22/04/2014 00:25, Spyros Hadjichristodoulou wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been trying to get the Clang-AST from compiling a simple C 
>> source file; the -ast-dump flag works just fine, but I'm having 
>> trouble with the -ast-dump-xml flag. A quick google search says that 
>> it should work when using Clang built in debug mode, but I don't seem 
>> to be able to make it work. So my question is this; is this flag 
>> supported in the current version of Clang? FYI, I've just built Clang 
>> from the SVN repo source, so my version is:
>>
>> clang version 3.5.0 (trunk 206772)
>> Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> Thread model: posix
>>
>> I'm on a 64-bit ubuntu, with kernel 3.8.0-29 generic. Any help would 
>> be mostly appreciated!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Spyros
>>
>>
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