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Re: âxref_tagâ lacks a public declaration
ludovic.courtes@inria.fr (Ludovic CourtÃs) writes:
>>> âc-common.hâ lacks this declaration:
>>>
>>> extern tree xref_tag (enum tree_code code, tree name);
>>>
>>> AFAICS it makes it impossible for plug-ins to lookup a struct/union/enum
>>> tag.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, <cp/cp-tree.h> declares a different âxref_tagâ function,
>>> so it seems that the above declaration cannot just be added to
>>> âc-common.hâ.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to solve this?
>>
>> Any plugin that uses that function is going to be inherently specific to
>> the C frontend, and will not work with C++.
>
> BTW, what equivalent function would work with both C and C++?
As far as I know, there isn't one. I know it seems like a reasonable
question to ask, but the two frontends are different, and they are never
linked together in the same executable.
Ian