Parsing Source Code

Wed 23 May 2018

The following are examples on how to parse source code into an AST in python.

Python

Use GAST https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/gast

C/C++

pip install clang

import sys
import clang.cindex

def find_typerefs(node, typename):
    """ Find all references to the type named 'typename'
    """
    if node.kind.is_reference():
        ref_node = clang.cindex.Cursor_ref(node)
        if ref_node.spelling == typename:
            print 'Found %s [line=%s, col=%s]' % (
                typename, node.location.line, node.location.column)
    # Recurse for children of this node
    for c in node.get_children():
        find_typerefs(c, typename)

index = clang.cindex.Index.create()
tu = index.parse(sys.argv[1])
print 'Translation unit:', tu.spelling
find_typerefs(tu.cursor, sys.argv[2])