How to exclude headers from AST in clang?

Question

I'm generating AST using clang. I've got following file (lambda.cpp) to parse:

#include <iostream>

void my_lambda()
{
    auto lambda = [](auto x, auto y) {return x + y;};
    std::cout << "fabricati diem"; 
}

I'm parsing this using following command:

clang -Xclang -ast-dump -fsyntax-only lambda.cpp

The problem is that clang parses also headers content. As a result, I've got quite big (~3000 lines) file with useless (for me) content.

How to exclude headers when generating AST?

Answer 1

clang-check might be useful on the matter, clang-check has option -ast-dump-filter=<string> documented as follow

-ast-dump-filter=<string> - Use with -ast-dump or -ast-print to dump/print only AST declaration nodes having a certain substring in a qualified name. Use -ast-list to list all filterable declaration node names.

when clang-check run with -ast-dump-filter=my_lambda on the sample code (lambda.cpp)

#include <iostream>

void my_lambda()
{
    auto lambda = [](auto x, auto y) {return x + y;};
    std::cout << "fabricati diem"; 
}

It dumps only matched declaration node FunctionDecl my_lambda 'void (void)'

Here is the command line arguments and few lines from output.

$ clang-check -extra-arg=-std=c++1y -ast-dump -ast-dump-filter=my_lambda lambda.cpp --

FunctionDecl 0x2ddf630 <lambda.cpp:3:1, line:7:1> line:3:6 my_lambda 'void (void)'
`-CompoundStmt 0x2de1558 <line:4:1, line:7:1>
  |-DeclStmt 0x2de0960 <line:5:9, col:57>