[cfe-dev] What are canonical Types in Clang

[Richard Smith]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:29 AM, cedlemo <cedlemo at gmx.com> wrote:

>  When I parse this code with an AST parser:
>
> struct _poire {
>     int g;
>     char rouge; // tomate is probably one of your classes so I just changed the type of the field.};typedef struct _poire kudamono;
> I have a clang::TypedefDecl then I get the clang::QualType of the typedef with clang::TypedefDecl::getUnderlyingType()
>
> With the QualType if I use the getAsString method I can find the "struct
> _poire" std::string. All this is Ok.
>
> The problem is if I try to see if this type is a canonical type, with
> QualType::isCanonical(), it returns false.
>
> So I try to get the canonical type with
> QualType::getCanonicalType().getAsString() and it returns the same string
> "struct _poire".
>
OK, but presumably it's a different QualType value, and this one's
isCanonical() will return true?

> according to the clang reference on type
> http://clang.llvm.org/docs/InternalsManual.html#canonical-types , I
> thought that the isCanonical() should return true when no typedef is
> involved.
>
No, there are lots of other things that can make a type non-canonical.

> So what are really canonical type?
>
> (more informations on my problem can be seen here *http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25231080/clang-what-are-canonical-types
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25231080/clang-what-are-canonical-types>*
> )
>
> Cedlemo
>
>
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