Can we see the templates instantiated by the C++ compiler?

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Clang (https://clang.llvm.org/) can pretty-print AST of instantiated template:

For your example:

test.cpp

template < class T> T add(T a, T b){
    return a+b;
}

void tmp() {
    add<int>(10,2); 
}

Command to pretty-print AST:

$ clang++ -Xclang -ast-print -fsyntax-only test.cpp

Clang-5.0/Clang 14.0 output:

template <class T> T add(T a, T b) {
    return a + b;
}
template<> int add<int>(int a, int b) {
    return a + b;
}
void tmp() {
    add<int>(10, 2);
}

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