This patch adds the Parse and Sema support for RegularKeyword attributes,
following on from a previous patch that added Attr.td support.
The patch is quite large. However, nothing outside the tests is
specific to the first RegularKeyword attribute (__arm_streaming).
The patch should therefore be a one-off, up-front cost. Other
attributes just need an entry in Attr.td and the usual Sema support.
The approach taken in the patch is that the keywords can be used with
any language version. If standard attributes were added in language
version Y, the keyword rules for version X<Y are the same as they were
for version Y (to the extent possible). Any extensions beyond Y are
handled in the same way for both keywords and attributes. This ensures
that existing C++11 successors like C++17 are not treated differently
from versions that have yet to be defined.
Some notes on the implementation:
- The patch emits errors rather than warnings for diagnostics that
relate to keywords.
- Where possible, the patch drops “attribute” from diagnostics
relating to keywords.
- One exception to the previous point is that warnings about C++
extensions do still mention attributes. The use there seemed OK
since the diagnostics are noting a change in the production rules.
- If a diagnostic string needs to be different for keywords and
attributes, the patch standardizes on passing the attribute/
name/token followed by 0 for attributes and 1 for keywords.
- Although the patch updates warn_attribute_wrong_decl_type_str,
warn_attribute_wrong_decl_type, and warn_attribute_wrong_decl_type,
only the error forms of these strings are used for keywords.
- I couldn't trigger the warnings in checkUnusedDeclAttributes,
even for existing attributes. An assert on the warnings caused
no failures in the testsuite. I think in practice all standard
attributes would be diagnosed before this.
- The patch drops a call to standardAttributesAllowed in
ParseFunctionDeclarator. This is because MaybeParseCXX11Attributes
checks the same thing itself, where appropriate.
- The new tests are based on c2x-attributes.c and
cxx0x-attributes.cpp. The C++ test also incorporates a version of
cxx11-base-spec-attributes.cpp. The FIXMEs are carried across from
the originals.
Humorously, I spent an absurd amount of time trying to figure out whether appurtenance was a word/the correct spelling, determined you had it right and closed the phab review box, just to see atributes :D