[cfe-dev] Is it safe to cast-away constness to use Clang static analysis?

Roman Popov via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Oct 3 13:51:02 PDT 2017


Yes, this is what I have to do.

Actually RecursiveASTVisitor does not enforce constness, so probably it is
AST matchers that are not consistent with rest of Clang API.

-Roman

2017-10-03 12:49 GMT-07:00 Jonas Toth <jonas.toth at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> you can try `const_cast` as first try to do it.
>
> Jonas
>
> Am 03.10.2017 um 21:31 schrieb Roman Popov via cfe-dev:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a code refactoring tool that needs some static analysis
> capabilities.
> I've noticed that AST Matchers return const AST nodes, but static analysis
> sometimes wants to consume non-const pointers.
>
> For example to build call graph I need to pass non-const pointer:
>  CallGraph::addToCallGraph(Decl *D)
>
> So does static analysis modifies AST? Or it's just a bug in method
> signature?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
>
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