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[pygccxml-development] Getting a constructor's initialization list?

[P. J. R. <pr...@sw...>]

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Let's say that I have a class definition and implementation that look
something like this:

class Test {
    Test();
    int a, b;
};

Test::Test():
    a( 1 ),
    b( 2 )
{}

I'd like to use pygccxml to get the values in the intialization list in
the constructor -- that is, I want to find out that it's setting "a" to
1 and "b" to 2.  I can't quite figure out how to do this.  I would
assume that there would be some member method of constructor_t that I
could use to read it, but I don't see it.

Is there some way to do this that I'm missing?  If it's not currently
possible, would it be difficult to add that in?

Thanks!
- -- 
P. J. Reed
Southwest Research Institute
Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Division
Research Analyst
(210) 522-6948
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Re: [pygccxml-development] Getting a constructor's initialization list?

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

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM, P. J. Reed <pr...@sw...> wrote:
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> Let's say that I have a class definition and implementation that look
> something like this:
>
> class Test {
>    Test();
>    int a, b;
> };
>
> Test::Test():
>    a( 1 ),
>    b( 2 )
> {}
>
> I'd like to use pygccxml to get the values in the intialization list in
> the constructor -- that is, I want to find out that it's setting "a" to
> 1 and "b" to 2.  I can't quite figure out how to do this.  I would
> assume that there would be some member method of constructor_t that I
> could use to read it, but I don't see it.
>
> Is there some way to do this that I'm missing?

No.

> If it's not currently possible, would it be difficult to add that in?

Yes. GCCXML is not able to dump arbitrary C++ expression it is
toooooooooo difficult.

There are few projects out-there, that tries to add dumping functions
body to GCCXML. I  don't know their status.

Mozilla has some project based on gcc, which is used for refactoring,
I guess you can find such functionality there.
Another valid option is clang project, but it doesn't support C++ well
right know.

HTH

-- 
Roman Yakovenko
C++ Python language binding
http://www.language-binding.net/