[cfe-dev] API to check if a decl is a pointer

[Himanshu via cfe-dev]

Thanks Aaron!

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Himanshu

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Himanshu via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there an API that allows one to check if a DeclRefExpr or its
> > corresponding VarDecl is of a pointer type? For example:
> >
> > int *pI;  // yes -- a pointer type
> > int i; // no.
> >
> > I could use a string based check -- getting the type name as string and
> then
> > searching for '*' in it, but I believe there must be a cleaner and robust
> > way to do so.
>
> You can call getType() on the VarDecl (because it inherits from
> ValueDecl), and then check isPointerType() on the resulting QualType
> object (it wraps a Type *). e.g.,
>
> QualType QT = YourVarDecl->getType();
> if (QT->isPointerType()) {
>
> }
>
> ~Aaron
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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