[cfe-dev] Using clang-query on the whole project

[Manuel Klimek]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:33 AM Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:

> Heya,
>
> I've found clang-query to be useful to query single files. Matching the
> Clang
> AST is easy enough and fast to learn. I don't see how to use clang-query
> on a
> whole project, though, which would be super useful.
>
> A simple example where it's effectively useless: Assume some header
> "global.h"
> containing "struct Global {};", every file in the project includes this
> header.
>
> Now the idiomatic way to run clang-query over all the files in the project:
>   clang-query -p $BUILD $(find . -name "*.cpp")
>
> Let's try to find record decls named "Global":
>   match recordDecl(hasName("Global"), isDefinition())
>
> => You get one match per file / translation unit. But in fact, this is not
> really what you want. You want one match here.
>
> So of course this is difficult: clang-query is TU-centric, while for a
> whole
> project you'd "somehow" want a global view over the source code and not
> have
> duplicate results for a query like above.
>
> Questions:
> - Is it possible to get clang-query to behave like that?
>   - Any research/pointers in that regard?
> - Is it possible to filter duplicates in the results without external
> tools?
>
> Thanks a lot for a great tool so far!
>

Well, usually at that point you'll want to start writing a go/clangmr.

It might also be cool to make clang-query work as clangmr; sounds like that
would be a nice 20% project ;)


> Greets
>
> --
> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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