[cfe-users] RecursiveASTVisitor won't visit all declarations in the AST

[Teodor Dermendzhiev via cfe-users]

Hi all,
I am having problems walking through the syntax tree of a simple header file. With llvm 4.0.1 everything works as expected but after upgrading to 7.0.0 I notice that just a small number of all declarations in the AST are being visited.


Running a simple ASTFrontendAction (like the one from this article - https://clang.llvm.org/docs/RAVFrontendAction.html ) in HandleTranslationUnit() -


    virtual void HandleTranslationUnit(ASTContext &Context) {
        Decl* tu = Context.getTranslationUnitDecl();
        Visitor.TraverseDecl(tu);
    }

when I dump the *tu* variable I get a lot smaller dump with 7.0.0. After investigating further I updated TraverseDeclContextHelper() method in order to print the size of decls() container for every DeclContext we visit:

template <typename Derived>
bool RecursiveASTVisitor<Derived>::TraverseDeclContextHelper(DeclContext *DC) {
  if (!DC)
    return true;

  int childSize = 0; // my code

  for (auto *Child : DC->decls()) {
    childSize++; // my code
    if (!canIgnoreChildDeclWhileTraversingDeclContext(Child))
        TRY_TO(TraverseDecl(Child));
  }

  std::cout << DC->getDeclKindName() << ": " << childSize << " child declarations" << "\n"; //my code

  return true;
}

With llvm 4.0.0 I get:
TranslationUnit: 20526 child declarations

while with 7.0.0:
TranslationUnit: 486 child declarations

I created a sample project that illustrates this behavior - https://github.com/tdermendjiev/clang-samples .

Any help tackling this issue is appreciated. Thank you.

Best wishes,
Teodor Dermendzhiev

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