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Is it possible to get Lexer output from gcc or clang?

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Is it possible to get clang or gcc to display the result of the lexing phase?

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Benno Avatar asked Dec 31 '14 01:12

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Although the parser does poll the lexer without there being a proper "lexing phase" this does not mean that you cannot dump the tokens as they are lexed. This is done with the command :

clang -fsyntax-only -Xclang -dump-tokens code.c
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OlivierLi Avatar answered Nov 15 '22 22:11

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