[cfe-dev] Get "real" type name.

[Yaron Keren via cfe-dev]

Useful trick to see how such things are done is to debug into the
QualType::dump() method.


2016-01-25 18:48 GMT+02:00 Stephan Bergmann via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>:

> On 01/25/2016 05:15 PM, Guillaume Maudoux (Layus) via cfe-dev wrote:
>
>> I am currently fighting with clang libs to get the "real" type name of a
>> template parameter.
>> My current code obtains the "resolved" name of the type.
>>
>> For example, with a `typedef int myInt;`,
>> templateArgs[0].getAsType().getAsString() returns "int" instead of
>> "myInt".
>>
>>      const TemplateArgumentList& templateArgs =
>> specDecl->getTemplateArgs();
>>
>>      assert(templateArgs.size() == 1);
>>      assert(templateArgs[0].getKind() == TemplateArgument::Type);
>>      return
>> templateArgs[0].getAsType().getAsString(context->getPrintingPolicy());
>>
>> Is there some way to extract the type string used in the source code,
>> not the type infered by clang ?
>>
>
> Asked something similar two years ago, <
> http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2014-February/035161.html>
> "SubstTemplateTypeParmType and non-canonical replacement type."  But never
> found an answer.
>
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