[cfe-dev] Check if inside a header file

Nikola Smiljanic popizdeh at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 15:23:44 PST 2014


Eli's comment in the bug report gave me the impression that this needs
fixing... Is that the case or should we just close this bug?


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Nikola Smiljanic <popizdeh at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was actually looking at this http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=16686but it seems that there's no way to fix this. I understand that compiler
> doesn't care, but I was hoping that this information was stored somewhere
> (at least based on file extension). Any other ideas?
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>wrote:
>
>> Oh. Not if we infer that from .h or .hxx, because then a lot of existing
>> use cases will break. I guess that does call for a new predicate, then.
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 17:48, Richard Smith <metafoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps isInMainFile should return false if the file type was specified
>> as -x c-header or -x c++-header?
>>
>> On Fri Jan 17 2014 at 5:42:22 PM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There's not actually any difference between a header file passed as a
>>> main file and a normal main file. C doesn't care that one has a .h and/or
>>> lives in your include/ folder and that the other has a .c and/or lives in
>>> src/ or lib/. I think you've just got to accept that.
>>>
>>> Jordan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2014, at 16:50, Nikola Smiljanic <popizdeh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is there a way to know if I'm inside a header file in the Preprocessor
>>> class. I've only been able to find warn_using_directive_in_header that does
>>> a similar check, only to realize that it's not 100% correct. It uses
>>> SourceMgr.isInMainFile which is not right if you pass a header file
>>> directly, no warning is generated in that case.
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