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

[Himanshu via cfe-dev]

Ah okay! Thanks for pointing that out.

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Himanshu

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Himanshu <himanshu at utexas.edu> wrote:
> > For anyone else who might want to do this, I believe the API has changed
> > slightly. I think as per the new API, one needs to do:
> >
> > bool isPtr = VD->getType().getTypePtr()->isPointerType();
>
> You should not have to do this -- QualType wraps a Type * and
> overloads operator-> so that you can call Type functions on a QualType
> with -> (and QualType methods through .).
>
> ~Aaron
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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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