Clang tools can help with global refactorings of Chromium code. Clang tools can take advantage of clang's AST to perform refactorings that would be impossible with a traditional find-and-replace regexp:
scoped_ptr<T>
from NULL
: https://crbug.com/173286scoped_refptr<T>
to T*
: https://crbug.com/110610base::Value
APIs: https://crbug.com/581865target_os="win"
build won't update code that is guarded by OS_POSIX
. Performing a global refactoring will often require running the tool once for each build config.A Chromium checkout created with fetch
should have everything needed.
For convenience, add third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts/bin
to $PATH
.
LLVM uses C++11 and CMake. Source code for Chromium clang tools lives in //tools/clang. It is generally easiest to use one of the already-written tools as the base for writing a new tool.
Chromium clang tools generally follow this pattern:
clang::ast_matchers::MatchFinder
.addMatcher()
to register clang::ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchCallback
actions to execute when matching the AST.clang::tooling::FrontendActionFactory
from the MatchFinder
.clang::tooling::ClangTool::run
.clang::tooling::Replacement
s to stdout
.Other useful references when writing the tool:
==== BEGIN EDITS ==== r:::path/to/file/to/edit:::offset1:::length1:::replacement text r:::path/to/file/to/edit:::offset2:::length2:::replacement text r:::path/to/file2/to/edit:::offset3:::length3:::replacement text include-user-header:::path/to/file2/to/edit:::-1:::-1:::header/file/to/include.h ... ==== END EDITS ====
The header and footer are required. Each line between the header and footer represents one edit. Fields are separated by :::
, and the first field must be r
(for replacement) or include-user-header
. A deletion is an edit with no replacement text.
The edits are applied by apply_edits.py
, which understands certain conventions:
\0
. The script knows to translate \0
back to newlines when applying edits.TODO: Document more about SourceLocation
and how spelling loc differs from expansion loc, etc.
While clang has a clang::tooling::RefactoringTool
to automatically apply the generated replacements and save the results, it doesn't work well for Chromium:
Synopsis:
tools/clang/scripts/build.py --bootstrap --without-android --without-fuchsia \ --extra-tools rewrite_to_chrome_style
Running this command builds the Oilpan plugin, the Chrome style plugin, and the Blink to Chrome style rewriter. Additional arguments to --extra-tools
should be the name of subdirectories in //tools/clang.
It is important to use --bootstrap as there appear to be bugs in the clang library this script produces if you build it with gcc, which is the default.
Once clang is bootsrapped, incremental builds can be done by invoking ninja
in the third_party/llvm-build/Release+Asserts
directory. In particular, recompiling solely the tool you are writing can be accomplished by executing ninja rewrite_to_chrome_style
(replace rewrite_to_chrome_style
with your tool's name).
First, build all Chromium targets to avoid failures due to missing dependencies that are generated as part of the build:
ninja -C out/Debug # For non-Windows ninja -d keeprsp -C out/Debug # For Windows # experimental alternative: $gen_targets = $(ninja -C out/Debug -t targets all \ | grep '^gen/[^: ]*\.[ch][pc]*:' \ | cut -f 1 -d :) ninja -C out/Debug $gen_targets
Note that running the clang tool with precompiled headers enabled currently produces errors. This can be avoided by setting enable_precompiled_headers = false
in the build's gn args.
Then run the actual clang tool to generate a list of edits:
tools/clang/scripts/run_tool.py --tool <path to tool> \ --generate-compdb -p out/Debug <path 1> <path 2> ... >/tmp/list-of-edits.debug
--generate-compdb
can be omitted if the compile DB was already generated and the list of build flags and source files has not changed since generation.
If cross-compiling, specify --target_os
. See gn help target_os
for possible values. For example, when cross-compiling a Windows build on Linux/Mac, use --target_os=win
.
<path 1>
, <path 2>
, etc are optional arguments to filter the files to run the tool against. This is helpful when sharding global refactorings into smaller chunks. For example, the following command will run the empty_string
tool against just the .c
, .cc
, .cpp
, .m
, .mm
files in //net
. Note that the filtering is not applied to the output of the tool - the tool can emit edits that apply to files outside of //net
(i.e. edits that apply to headers from //base
that got included by source files in //net
).
tools/clang/scripts/run_tool.py --tool empty_string \ --generate-compdb \ -p out/Debug net >/tmp/list-of-edits.debug
Note that some header files might only be included from generated files (e.g. from only from some .cpp
files under out/Debug/gen). To make sure that contents of such header files are processed by the clang tool, the clang tool needs to be run against the generated files. The only way to accomplish this today is to pass --all
switch to run_tool.py
- this will run the clang tool against all the sources from the compilation database.
Finally, apply the edits as follows:
cat /tmp/list-of-edits.debug \ | tools/clang/scripts/extract_edits.py \ | tools/clang/scripts/apply_edits.py -p out/Debug <path 1> <path 2> ...
The apply_edits.py tool will only apply edits to files actually under control of git
. <path 1>
, <path 2>
, etc are optional arguments to further filter the files that the edits are applied to. Note that semantics of these filters is distinctly different from the arguments of run_tool.py
filters - one set of filters controls which files are edited, the other set of filters controls which files the clang tool is run against.
Dumping the AST for a file:
clang++ -Xclang -ast-dump -std=c++14 foo.cc | less -R
Using clang-query
to dynamically test matchers (requires checking out and building clang-tools-extra):
clang-query -p path/to/compdb base/memory/ref_counted.cc
printf
debugging:
clang::Decl* decl = result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::Decl>("decl"); decl->dumpColor(); clang::Stmt* stmt = result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::Stmt>("stmt"); stmt->dumpColor();
By default, the script hides the output of the tool. The easiest way to change that is to return 1
from the main()
function of the clang tool.
Synposis:
tools/clang/scripts/test_tool.py <tool name> [--apply-edits]
The name of the tool binary and the subdirectory for the tool in //tools/clang
must match. The test runner finds all files that match the pattern //tools/clang/<tool name>/tests/*-original.cc
, and runs the tool across those files. If --apply-edits
switch is presented, tool outputs are applied to respective files and compared to the *-expected.cc
version. If there is a mismatch, the result is saved in *-actual.cc
. When --apply-edits
switch is not presented, tool outputs are compared to *-expected.txt
and if different, the result is saved in *-actual.txt
. Note that in this case, only one test file is expected.