[GCC-XML] string in gccxml

[Brad King]

Kedar Joshi wrote:
> I am trying to run gccxml on the following code:
> 
> #include <string>
> using namespace std;
> ...
> string echoString(string)
> ...
> 
> It compiles with gccxml, but not with gccxml_cc1plus. 

gccxml_cc1plus is an internal program invoked by gccxml, so it is not 
expected to work when called by hand.

> Gccxml generates a very large file with a lot of unwanted stuff. Is
> there another way to use a C++ string and maybe without generating the
> extra code?

You can use the "-fxml-start" option to specify a declaration.  The 
subgraph of references starting at this declaration is dumped:

gccxml foo.cxx -fxml=foo.xml -fxml-start=echoString

-Brad