[cfe-dev] AST Writer

[Madhur Amilkanthwar via cfe-dev]

I am not aware of any such tool.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:28 AM Ridwan Shariffdeen <rshariffdeen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Madhur,
>
> Thank you for the reply.
> I am currently working on AST mutation and need this feature to insert
> custom nodes. If I have to use IR I will have to translate the AST
> mutations into IR level code and redo. Or is there a tool which I can use
> to translate AST diff into IR instructions?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:51 AM Madhur Amilkanthwar <
> madhur13490 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's interesting but is it not possible for you to work on IR?
>> The IRBuilder has better support for arbitrary instruction insertion.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:06 AM Ridwan Shariffdeen via cfe-dev <
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to build a tool which can insert new AST nodes to a AST tree
>>> obtained from a source code and generate the modified source code. For
>>> example add an if condition to a given location.
>>>
>>> I have seen examples on ReWriter which can insert text, but I want to
>>> insert a proper AST node and generate the source code from the modified
>>> AST.
>>>
>>> For this purpose, I think I should be using ASTWriter and not ReWriter.
>>> Is there any documentation I can refer on how to implement this?
>>>
>>> Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Ridwan
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>>
>>
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>> Thank You.
>> Madhur D. Amilkanthwar
>>
>>

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