[cfe-dev] parsing llvm type strings from an in-memory string

[Francis Visoiu Mistrih via cfe-dev]

Hi,

> On 18 Dec 2017, at 16:01, Seth Goldstein via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> For various reasons, I want to be able to use the `LLParser` machinery to create `Type` objects.  So, I need to create an LLParser which will parse a string, instead of a reading it from a file.  If I was doing this in clang, then I think I would need to use an instance of `InMemoryFileSystem` which inherits from `FileSystem`.  
> 
> However, I want to do this in an llvm pass.  Any suggestions?

You can find some functions that might do this in include/llvm/AsmParser/Parser.h, probably

> Type *parseType(StringRef Asm, SMDiagnostic &Err, const Module &M, const SlotMapping *Slots = nullptr);


might be what you’re looking for.

Cheers,

— 
Francis Visoiu Mistrih

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