[cfe-dev] Failure to rewrite code using clang plugin

[Pablo Oliva via cfe-dev]

Hi, as part of a research project I had to tag certain typedefs with an
attribute and then replace those tagged typedefs by some specific code.

I added the attribute to include/clang/Basic/Attr.td, recompiled clang, and
then programmed a plugin using ASTMatchers, to detect all the typedefs and
do the replacement (using Rewriter) if the attribute is present.

Now, if I use the plugin passing -XClang -plugin as compilation arguments,
so that the compilation stops after using the plugin, the plugin works
correctly and outputs modified source code. But if I use -XClang
-add-plugin, so that the compilation carries on, Rewriter fails and I get a
core dump.

Am I doing something wrong in here? Is Rewriter unusable unless it is used
as a plugin? If you were to do some transformation similar to this one,
would you use a similar strategy or do things differently?

Any advice would be greatly welcomed.

Best regards,

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