[cfe-dev] advice with development on clang-tidy matchers

[Manuel Klimek]

On Tue Feb 17 2015 at 3:33:27 PM Jonathan Coe <jbcoe at me.com> wrote:

> I'm finding it very hard to find information and examples on using the
> matchers and API to do a number of things. I wondered if anyone knew of a
> good source of introductory info that goes into some depth? Eli Bendersky's
> blogs are very good but I need more detail on specific things: I'm keen to
> use matchers to match standard library types by name but that seems hard.
>

Shameless plug to all the docs we wrote and a talk of mine :)
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/IntroductionToTheClangAST.html
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibASTMatchers.html
http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LibASTMatchersReference.html



>
> I have work in progress here:
>
>
>    -
>    https://github.com/jbcoe/clang-tools-extra/blob/missing_namespace_std/clang-tidy/misc/MissingNamespaceStdCheck.cpp
>
>    -
>    https://github.com/jbcoe/clang-tools-extra/blob/propagate_const/clang-tidy/misc/PropagateConstCheck.cpp
>
>
> I'm stuck on both:
>
>
>    - MissingNameSpaceStd can't cope with pointers, references or template
>    types like std::vector<std::pair<int,int>>
>
>    - PropagateConst can't match smart pointers. Ideally it would do so by
>    duck-typing but I'd settle for name matching for now.
>
>
> I've posted messages on the clang IRC channel but am met by stony silence.
> I've not used IRC before so perhaps my setup is wrong.
>

Feel free to ping me directly there (r4nt) during CEST time; note that
yesterday was a holiday in the US where not that many people were online.


> I set up a review account on http://llvm.org/docs/Phabricator.html and
> have patches for the git repositories above but need a repository name for
> Differential (clang, clang-tools-extra, llvm are not right) to make
> progress.
>

You don't need to fill in the repo name.


>
> Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.
>
> regards,
>
> Jon
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