Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input. Here is an example: ”The first two parameters specify the declaration (clang::Decl) and the statement for the declaration (clang::Stmt).”

A block of code is set as follows:

1 int main() { 
2   return 0; 
3 }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ ninja clang

We use <...> as a placeholder for the folder where the LLVM source code was cloned.

Some code examples will be representing input of shells. You can recognize them by specific prompt characters:

• (lldb) for interactive LLDB shell

• $ for Bash shell (macOS and Linux)

• > for interactive shell provided by different Clang Tools, such as Clang-Query

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