I see the problem with the asm statements. These are a different type of node in the Clang AST, a FileScopeAsmDecl, which I did not yet add support for. I will work on this today.

For 1, we'll define a new Maple IR directive asmdecl, which will be used when there is inline asm outside of any function. It will just take a string, like:

asmdecl ".global start_set_test_set"

Internally, it will be stored as an element of a asmDecls array of MapleString inside MIRModule:

MapleVector<MapleString> asmDecls;

We assume that the positions where these asmdecl's appear do not matter, because they are just global declarations.

For 2, the section attribute is more than an attribute, because it has a string associated with it to specify the section name. We'll add the following field to class MIRSymbol:

GStrIdx sectionAttr { 0 }; // if not 0, the string for the name in C's section attribute

In ascii Maple IR, when a variable has a section attribute, it will printed together with other attributes like:

var test_set_sym <* void> section("set_test_set") static const

PR769 submitted. This will break binary maple compatibility.

Fred's PR 769 adds the necessary new features in the IR. Once that is merged, I will add the corresponding code to clang2mpl.