Re: [pygccxml-development] declarations string, stability

[Roman Y. <rom...@gm...>]

On Dec 8, 2007 3:02 PM, Gustavo Carneiro <gjc...@gm...> wrote:
>   Hi Roman and all,
>
>   Suppose I wanted to:
>
>      1- Scan header files once;
>      2- Store the definitions found in my own XML format, including for each
> definition a string that uniquely identifies it;
>       3- Later, I run the same program that scans a new set of definitions
>      4- At this point the program should be able to detect: a) newly added
> definitions, b) changed definitions (only changed parameter names), c)
> removed definitions;
>
> For step 4 I need to get a definitions identifier that is stable across
> current and future (py)gccxml versions.  Is decl_string the identifier I
> want?

No, what you want is to use declarations.full_name function.

P.S. Be careful with unnamed declarations.

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Roman Yakovenko
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