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Dear all,

I'm new to the mailing list.

I'm trying to find the file format description of the AST files generated
with
>clang -emit-ast ...

Could you give me any pointer? Thanks
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What do you want to "do" with the file generated? In general, I would
have
thought the tools provided by Clang would be more suitable than trying to
parse the output from clang with this option - it's more of a tool to debug
the compiler than something intended to use for further processing. Clang
already comes with several sets of tools for reformatting,
modifying/matching code patterns, etc.

I'm also copying the reply to "cfe-dev" that is the mailing list
for Clang
and related tools, rather than the llvm-dev, which is the mailing list for
the LLVM part of the clang+llvm set of tools/products.

--
Mats

On 6 April 2016 at 11:26, David Castells Rufas via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm new to the mailing list.
>
> I'm trying to find the file format description of the AST files
generated
> with
> >clang -emit-ast ...
>
>
> Could you give me any pointer? Thanks
>
> _______________________________________________
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
>
>
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I would like to manipulate the AST from a C++ source code from a Java
application. As far as I know there are no good and open source methods to
get a detailed AST from C++ in Java.

May it be that clang (as it happens in gcc) try to discourage people to
work with the AST outside llvm tools because of uninteded license use fears?



On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:53 PM, mats petersson <mats at planetcatfish.com>
wrote:
> What do you want to "do" with the file generated? In general, I
would have
> thought the tools provided by Clang would be more suitable than trying to
> parse the output from clang with this option - it's more of a tool to
debug
> the compiler than something intended to use for further processing. Clang
> already comes with several sets of tools for reformatting,
> modifying/matching code patterns, etc.
>
> I'm also copying the reply to "cfe-dev" that is the mailing
list for Clang
> and related tools, rather than the llvm-dev, which is the mailing list for
> the LLVM part of the clang+llvm set of tools/products.
>
> --
> Mats
>
> On 6 April 2016 at 11:26, David Castells Rufas via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm new to the mailing list.
>>
>> I'm trying to find the file format description of the AST files
generated
>> with
>> >clang -emit-ast ...
>>
>>
>> Could you give me any pointer? Thanks
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> LLVM Developers mailing list
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
>> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
>>
>>
>
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