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author | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-12-02 13:20:44 +0000 |
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committer | dim <dim@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-12-02 13:20:44 +0000 |
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Vendor import of clang release_32 branch r168974 (effectively, 3.2 RC2):
http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/branches/release_32@168974
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diff --git a/docs/LibTooling.html b/docs/LibTooling.html index ed0ad45..163d24a 100644 --- a/docs/LibTooling.html +++ b/docs/LibTooling.html @@ -16,24 +16,27 @@ <p>LibTooling is a library to support writing standalone tools based on Clang. This document will provide a basic walkthrough of how to write a tool using LibTooling.</p> +<p>For the information on how to setup Clang Tooling for LLVM see +<a href="HowToSetupToolingForLLVM.html">HowToSetupToolingForLLVM.html</a></p> <!-- ======================================================================= --> <h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2> <!-- ======================================================================= --> -<p>Tools built with LibTooling, like Clang Plugins, run FrontendActions over -code. <!-- See FIXME for a tutorial on how to write FrontendActions. --> +<p>Tools built with LibTooling, like Clang Plugins, run +<code>FrontendActions</code> over code. +<!-- See FIXME for a tutorial on how to write FrontendActions. --> In this tutorial, we'll demonstrate the different ways of running clang's -SyntaxOnlyAction, which runs a quick syntax check, over a bunch of +<code>SyntaxOnlyAction</code>, which runs a quick syntax check, over a bunch of code.</p> <!-- ======================================================================= --> <h2 id="runoncode">Parsing a code snippet in memory.</h2> <!-- ======================================================================= --> -<p>If you ever wanted to run a FrontendAction over some sample code, for example -to unit test parts of the Clang AST, runToolOnCode is what you looked for. Let -me give you an example: +<p>If you ever wanted to run a <code>FrontendAction</code> over some sample +code, for example to unit test parts of the Clang AST, +<code>runToolOnCode</code> is what you looked for. Let me give you an example: <pre> #include "clang/Tooling/Tooling.h" @@ -48,53 +51,44 @@ me give you an example: <h2 id="standalonetool">Writing a standalone tool.</h2> <!-- ======================================================================= --> -<p>Once you unit tested your FrontendAction to the point where it cannot -possibly break, it's time to create a standalone tool. For a standalone tool -to run clang, it first needs to figure out what command line arguments to use -for a specified file. To that end we create a CompilationDatabase.</p> +<p>Once you unit tested your <code>FrontendAction</code> to the point where it +cannot possibly break, it's time to create a standalone tool. For a standalone +tool to run clang, it first needs to figure out what command line arguments to +use for a specified file. To that end we create a +<code>CompilationDatabase</code>. There are different ways to create a +compilation database, and we need to support all of them depending on +command-line options. There's the <code>CommonOptionsParser</code> class +that takes the responsibility to parse command-line parameters related to +compilation databases and inputs, so that all tools share the implementation. +</p> -<h3 id="compilationdb">Creating a compilation database.</h3> -<p>CompilationDatabase provides static factory functions to help with parsing -compile commands from a build directory or the command line. The following code -allows for both explicit specification of a compile command line, as well as -retrieving the compile commands lines from a database. +<h3 id="parsingcommonoptions">Parsing common tools options.</h3> +<p><code>CompilationDatabase</code> can be read from a build directory or the +command line. Using <code>CommonOptionsParser</code> allows for explicit +specification of a compile command line, specification of build path using the +<code>-p</code> command-line option, and automatic location of the compilation +database using source files paths. <pre> +#include "clang/Tooling/CommonOptionsParser.h" + +using namespace clang::tooling; + int main(int argc, const char **argv) { - // First, try to create a fixed compile command database from the command line - // arguments. - llvm::OwningPtr<CompilationDatabase> Compilations( - FixedCompilationDatabase::loadFromCommandLine(argc, argv)); - - // Next, use normal llvm command line parsing to get the tool specific - // parameters. - cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(argc, argv); - - if (!Compilations) { - // In case the user did not specify the compile command line via positional - // command line arguments after "--", try to load the compile commands from - // a database in the specified build directory or auto-detect it from a - // source file. - std::string ErrorMessage; - if (!BuildPath.empty()) { - Compilations.reset( - CompilationDatabase::autoDetectFromDirectory(BuildPath, ErrorMessage)); - } else { - Compilations.reset(CompilationDatabase::autoDetectFromSource( - SourcePaths[0], ErrorMessage)); - } - // If there is still no valid compile command database, we don't know how - // to run the tool. - if (!Compilations) - llvm::report_fatal_error(ErrorMessage); - } + // CommonOptionsParser constructor will parse arguments and create a + // CompilationDatabase. In case of error it will terminate the program. + CommonOptionsParser OptionsParser(argc, argv); + + // Use OptionsParser.GetCompilations() and OptionsParser.GetSourcePathList() + // to retrieve CompilationDatabase and the list of input file paths. } </pre> </p> <h3 id="tool">Creating and running a ClangTool.</h3> -<p>Once we have a CompilationDatabase, we can create a ClangTool and run our -FrontendAction over some code. For example, to run the SyntaxOnlyAction over -the files "a.cc" and "b.cc" one would write: +<p>Once we have a <code>CompilationDatabase</code>, we can create a +<code>ClangTool</code> and run our <code>FrontendAction</code> over some code. +For example, to run the <code>SyntaxOnlyAction</code> over the files "a.cc" and +"b.cc" one would write: <pre> // A clang tool can run over a number of sources in the same process... std::vector<std::string> Sources; @@ -103,7 +97,7 @@ the files "a.cc" and "b.cc" one would write: // We hand the CompilationDatabase we created and the sources to run over into // the tool constructor. - ClangTool Tool(*Compilations, Sources); + ClangTool Tool(OptionsParser.GetCompilations(), Sources); // The ClangTool needs a new FrontendAction for each translation unit we run // on. Thus, it takes a FrontendActionFactory as parameter. To create a @@ -117,40 +111,29 @@ the files "a.cc" and "b.cc" one would write: <p>Now we combine the two previous steps into our first real tool. This example tool is also checked into the clang tree at tools/clang-check/ClangCheck.cpp. <pre> -#include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h" +// Declares clang::SyntaxOnlyAction. #include "clang/Frontend/FrontendActions.h" -#include "clang/Tooling/CompilationDatabase.h" +#include "clang/Tooling/CommonOptionsParser.h" #include "clang/Tooling/Tooling.h" +// Declares llvm::cl::extrahelp. +#include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h" using namespace clang::tooling; using namespace llvm; -cl::opt<std::string> BuildPath( - "p", - cl::desc("<build-path>"), - cl::Optional); +// CommonOptionsParser declares HelpMessage with a description of the common +// command-line options related to the compilation database and input files. +// It's nice to have this help message in all tools. +static cl::extrahelp CommonHelp(CommonOptionsParser::HelpMessage); -cl::list<std::string> SourcePaths( - cl::Positional, - cl::desc("<source0> [... <sourceN>]"), - cl::OneOrMore); +// A help message for this specific tool can be added afterwards. +static cl::extrahelp MoreHelp("\nMore help text..."); int main(int argc, const char **argv) { - llvm::OwningPtr<CompilationDatabase> Compilations( - FixedCompilationDatabase::loadFromCommandLine(argc, argv)); - cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(argc, argv); - if (!Compilations) { - std::string ErrorMessage; - Compilations.reset( - !BuildPath.empty() ? - CompilationDatabase::autoDetectFromDirectory(BuildPath, ErrorMessage) : - CompilationDatabase::autoDetectFromSource(SourcePaths[0], ErrorMessage) - ); - if (!Compilations) - llvm::report_fatal_error(ErrorMessage); - } - ClangTool Tool(*Compilations, SourcePaths); - return Tool.run(newFrontendActionFactory<clang::SyntaxOnlyAction>()); + CommonOptionsParser OptionsParser(argc, argv); + ClangTool Tool(OptionsParser.GetCompilations(), + OptionsParser.GetSourcePathList()); + return Tool.run(newFrontendActionFactory<clang::SyntaxOnlyAction>()); } </pre> </p> |