[cfe-dev] Why Printer Classes are private?

[Alex L via cfe-dev]

Hi Roman,

On 18 October 2017 at 14:35, Roman Popov via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> wrote:

> In StmtPrinter there is a PrintHelper that can be used to override
> printing of some nodes. I guess PrintHelper was introduced for someone
> like me that wanted to override some StmtPrinter visitors.
> But DeclPrinter does not supports PrintHelper for some reason.
>

It's possible that nobody else needed a customized DeclPrinter before, so
it wasn't necessary to add a helper for it.
I think that it would make sense to add a helper class for DeclPrinter if
there's a good enough justification for it. Would you be interested in
working on a patch for such a helper class?

Alex



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> 2017-10-18 12:53 GMT-07:00 Roman Popov <ripopov at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>> I want to redefine some visitors in DeclPrinter and StmtPrinter, but they
>> are not exported over Clang API. Why is that?
>>
>> Currently I have to copy-paste them into my tool. But this unfortunately
>> leads to some duplication.
>>
>> -Roman
>>
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