Review Request 123987: Don't create declarations for anonymous function parameters

[Milian Wolff]

> On June 3, 2015, 7:22 a.m., Milian Wolff wrote:
> > duchain/builder.cpp, line 785
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123987/diff/1/?file=378686#file378686line785>
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> >     this is very costly for the common case of non-empty identifiers. could you instead use the range and check whether that is empty please? i.e. skip the string conversion
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> Sergey Kalinichev wrote:
>     I've just tried it, but both: clang_Cursor_getSpellingNameRange and clang_getCursorExtent return non empty ranges, is there any other method?
>     Also this path is called for function parameters only which is not so often, so I don't think it's a problem at all.
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> Milian Wolff wrote:
>     Then please add a comment like "TODO: find a way to do this without a costly string conversion" and I'll take a look at it.
>     
>     thanks!
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> Kevin Funk wrote:
>     Just quickly scanned the clang source: I don't see an easy way to do this.
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>     Otoh, `clang_getCursorSpelling()` is likely just increasing the ref count on an internal `cxstring`, so it might not be that problematic. Would need to check the backtrace what happens for the ParmDecl cursor, but I don't have a debug build of LLVM/Clang right now.
>     
>     Still, please add an TODO.

in such a case it would still be better if we could get rid of the `.toString()`, i.e. add a `ClangString::isEmpty()`, maybe based on `strlen` if there's nothing better. Will still be much faster as no allocation is required then.


- Milian


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On June 3, 2015, 7:04 a.m., Sergey Kalinichev wrote:
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> (Updated June 3, 2015, 7:04 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop.
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> Repository: kdev-clang
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> Description
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> E.g.: void f(int);
> The int parameter is anonymous, so instead of creting a declaration pointing at the ) we do nothing here.
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> Diffs
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>   duchain/builder.cpp 4165cfc 
>   tests/files/variables.cpp 71935e9 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123987/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Sergey Kalinichev
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