The patch fixes a number of bugs related to parameter indexing in
attributes:
- Parameter indices in some attributes (argument_with_type_tag, pointer_with_type_tag, nonnull, ownership_takes, ownership_holds, and ownership_returns) are specified in source as one-origin including any C++ implicit this parameter, were stored as zero-origin excluding any this parameter, and were erroneously printing (-ast-print) and confusingly dumping (-ast-dump) as the stored values.
- For alloc_size, the C++ implicit this parameter was not subtracted correctly in Sema, leading to assert failures or to silent failures of __builtin_object_size to compute a value.
- For argument_with_type_tag, pointer_with_type_tag, and ownership_returns, the C++ implicit this parameter was not added back to parameter indices in some diagnostics.
This patch fixes the above bugs and aims to prevent similar bugs in
the future by introducing careful mechanisms for handling parameter
indices in attributes. ParamIdx stores a parameter index and is
designed to hide the stored encoding while providing accessors that
require each use (such as printing) to make explicit the encoding that
is needed. Attribute declarations declare parameter index arguments
as [Variadic]ParamIdxArgument, which are exposed as ParamIdx[*]. This
patch rewrites all attribute arguments that are processed by
checkFunctionOrMethodParameterIndex in SemaDeclAttr.cpp to be declared
as [Variadic]ParamIdxArgument. The only exception is xray_log_args's
argument, which is encoded as a count not an index.
An alternative approach is to attempt to hide the issue of parameter
index encoding at each use by somehow implicitly exposing exactly the
encoding needed. That approach is essentially the approach that
already existed, and I made several attempts to improve it, but I have
concluded that it is both futile and harmful. The trouble is that the
needed encoding varies among attribute arguments and even among uses
of a single attribute argument. Making the exposed encoding implicit
then requires developers to think about not only what encoding is
needed at every use but also what encoding is implicitly being
exposed. Thus, making the encoding explicit at every use should
actually reduce the cognitive burden and the potential for mistakes.