TypePattern Superclass

TypePattern matches types. They cannot be used directly in MATCH or MATCH_TREE (because these functions match AST nodes) but they can be used as parameters to other patterns, or used directly on the result of get_type_of_tree. By default, most TypePatterns remove typedefs and qualifiers before attempting to match (exceptions are noted). This means for instance, that a pattern x_p defined like this:

StructType x("X");
PointerType x_p(x);

matches all these types:

typedef struct X * X_p; X_p
struct X *
struct X const *