Add some helper functions for attributes. Issue #487

src/comp/metadata/decoder.rs

@@ -328,6 +328,10 @@ fn list_crate_attributes(&ebml::doc md, io::writer out) {
     out.write_str("\n\n");
 }
 
+fn get_crate_attributes(&vec[u8] data) -> vec[ast::attribute] {
+    ret get_attributes(ebml::new_doc(data));
+}
+
 fn list_crate_items(vec[u8] bytes, &ebml::doc md, io::writer out) {
     out.write_str("=Items=\n");
     auto paths = ebml::get_doc(md, tag_paths);

src/comp/middle/attr.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import std::vec;
+import std::option;
+import front::ast;
+
+export get_linkage_metas;
+export find_attrs_by_name;
+
+// From a list of crate attributes get only the meta_items that impact crate
+// linkage
+fn find_linkage_metas(vec[ast::attribute] attrs) -> vec[@ast::meta_item] {
+    let vec[@ast::meta_item] metas = [];
+    for (ast::attribute attr in find_attrs_by_name(attrs, "link")) {
+        alt (attr.node.value.node) {
+            case (ast::meta_list(_, ?items)) {
+                metas += items;
+            }
+            case (_) {
+                // FIXME: Maybe need a warning that this attr isn't
+                // being used for linkage
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    ret metas;
+}
+
+// Search a list of attributes and return only those with a specific name
+fn find_attrs_by_name(vec[ast::attribute] attrs,
+                      ast::ident name) -> vec[ast::attribute] {
+    auto filter = bind fn(&ast::attribute a,
+                          ast::ident name) -> option::t[ast::attribute] {
+        if (get_attr_name(a) == name) {
+            option::some(a)
+        } else {
+            option::none
+        }
+    } (_, name);
+    ret vec::filter_map(filter, attrs);
+}
+
+fn get_attr_name(&ast::attribute attr) -> ast::ident {
+    get_meta_item_name(@attr.node.value)
+}
+
+fn find_meta_items_by_name(vec[@ast::meta_item] metas,
+                           ast::ident name) -> vec[@ast::meta_item] {
+    auto filter = bind fn(&@ast::meta_item m,
+                          ast::ident name) -> option::t[@ast::meta_item] {
+        if (get_meta_item_name(m) == name) {
+            option::some(m)
+        } else {
+            option::none
+        }
+    } (_, name);
+    ret vec::filter_map(filter, metas);
+}
+
+fn get_meta_item_name(&@ast::meta_item meta) -> ast::ident {
+    alt (meta.node) {
+        case (ast::meta_word(?n)) { n }
+        case (ast::meta_name_value(?n, _)) { n }
+        case (ast::meta_list(?n, _)) { n }
+    }
+}
+
+//
+// Local Variables:
+// mode: rust
+// fill-column: 78;
+// indent-tabs-mode: nil
+// c-basic-offset: 4
+// buffer-file-coding-system: utf-8-unix
+// compile-command: "make -k -C $RBUILD 2>&1 | sed -e 's/\\/x\\//x:\\//g'";
+// End:
+//

src/comp/rustc.rc

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use std (name = "std",
          url = "http://rust-lang.org/src/std");
 
 mod middle {
+    mod attr;
     mod trans;
     mod ty;
     mod walk;