GCC Plugin TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL - Parsing global functions

[Mario Miller]

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> Datum: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:43:36 -0700
> Von: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
> An: Mario Miller <mario-miller@gmx.de>
> CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Betreff: Re: GCC Plugin TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL - Parsing global functions

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Mario Miller <mario-miller@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I am writing a GCC Plugin which can parse the bodies of functions.
> > Parsing member functions of classes works pretty well, but when I
> > want to parse a global function and use the DECL_CONTEXT Makro I
> > get a TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL. For member functions I use the
> > DECL_SAVED_TREE Makro to parse the function body; this works.
> > But when I use this Makro on a global function it returns NULL
> > always. My code looks a bit like this:
> 
> If you have a TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL, look in DECL_INITIAL to see the
> BLOCK for the namespace that it describes.
> 
> Ian

I tried the DECL_INITIAL Makro on the TRANSLATION_UNIT_DECL tree and on the FUNCTION_DECL tree. In both cases it always returns NULL; so i do not get the BLOCK for the namespace.