rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-bindgen
Ability to provide renames for unnamed types
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Description
So I have some bindings, and some of the types don't have C declarations so bindgen just calls them things like:
_bindgen_ty_1
_bindgen_ty_2
_bindgen_ty_3
_bindgen_ty_4
_bindgen_ty_5
_bindgen_ty_6
_bindgen_ty_7
_bindgen_ty_8
Now I happen to know what names I'd prefer it to use, so can there be an option to say "the first unknown type will be called Foo, the second unknown type will be Bar, etc"?
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the code that assigns names such as _bindgen_ty_1 and the existing option or configuration tests; done means users can provide ordered replacement names for unnamed types and the behavior is covered by tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100