[cfe-dev] API for auto type deduction in libclang

[Kevin Funk]

Hey guys,

I'm also part of the group trying to integrate Clang into KDevelop. We're 
using the C interface to Clang.

I'm currently struggling to figure out how to get the automatically deduced 
type of a C++11 auto type. What we basically do atm is the following:

Assume we have some code such as 'auto i = 42;'

Following situation:
- We have a CXCursor pointing to the declaration
- Now clang_getCursorType(cursor) at this point
  just returns CXType_Unexposed. This indicates some internal type.
- clang_getTypeSpelling(cursor) then just gives us 'auto'.
  Which is somewhat correct, but not what we really want.
- We'd like to know the deduced type

So the question is:
Is there some way to get the deduced type for 'i' (obviously 'int' here)?

Through debugging, I found out that C++11 auto types are internally handled as 
clang::AutoType. So, right now I'm missing API in the C interface, such as 
'CXType clang_getAutoDeducedType(CXType)' that internally calls something like 
clang::AutoType::getDeducedType() (from AST/Type.h).

I actually tried to patch Clang (excerpt attached) to get a proof-of-concept, 
but apparently AutoType::getDeducedType() always returns a null QualType for 
me. Hence the resulting type we get is garbage. Is AutoType::getDeducedType() 
even the correct method to use here? Is this approach completely wrong?

Any hints are welcome

Thanks

-- 
Kevin Funk
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