microsoft / microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
IDxcCursor misses semantics
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Description
When walking an AST for a given IDxcTranslationUnit, I noticed that the semantic annotations on struct fields, parameters, and return types appear to be missing. This information would be very useful, and I'm assuming an underlying issue is that there is no corresponding CXCursor in the underlying libclang code. Would it be possible to add support for adding semantic cursor kinds, or could I get some guidance on how I could accomplish this? Thanks!
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Research direction
Start by tracing IDxcCursor and IDxcTranslationUnit handling, then compare how the underlying libclang represents semantic annotations for struct fields, parameters, and return types. Determine whether corresponding CXCursor kinds exist and define the supported scope; done means semantic cursor information is exposed for those AST elements.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100