[swift-dev] Question about dump-ast and logging the output to file

[Marcel Rebouças]

Hello Dmitri,

Thank you for your answer. Although I didn't tell, I was already able to
generate the output of the astdumper to a file (without using the flag,
just reusing the AstDumper class) when building through Xcode. I understand
that the output is irregular, but I plan to eventually modify the dumper
according to my needs to make the output usable.

Also, I will take a deeper look at SourceKit. It seems to be the correct
way to do it. Thank you very much for the tip.

Thanks,
Marcel

Em domingo, 28 de agosto de 2016, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Marcel Rebouças <swift-dev at swift.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I am planning in doing some research and analysis with the ASTs of swift
> > programs and, for that reason, I am trying to modify the compiler to
> always
> > generate a file with the contents of the -dump-ast flag when building a
> > project.
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
> dump-ast format is not machine-parseable.  It was never designed to be
> such (so it is irregular), and it will change in incompatible ways in
> future.  And of course '-dump-ast' is not a publicly documented
> compiler flag, so it can go away at any point, for example, it can be
> removed from compilers built as public releases to save code size.
>
> If you want to (eventually) use your tool in a production environment,
> you should consider building your tool on top of SourceKit, possibly
> extending SourceKit along the way.
>
> Dmitri
>
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