diff --git a/clang/include/clang/AST/RecursiveASTVisitor.h b/clang/include/clang/AST/RecursiveASTVisitor.h
--- a/clang/include/clang/AST/RecursiveASTVisitor.h
+++ b/clang/include/clang/AST/RecursiveASTVisitor.h
@@ -2308,15 +2308,25 @@
   return true;
 }
 
-// This method is called once for each pair of syntactic and semantic
-// InitListExpr, and it traverses the subtrees defined by the two forms. This
-// may cause some of the children to be visited twice, if they appear both in
-// the syntactic and the semantic form.
+// If shouldVisitImplicitCode() returns false, this method traverses only the
+// syntactic form of InitListExpr.
+// If shouldVisitImplicitCode() return true, this method is called once for
+// each pair of syntactic and semantic InitListExpr, and it traverses the
+// subtrees defined by the two forms. This may cause some of the children to be
+// visited twice, if they appear both in the syntactic and the semantic form.
 //
 // There is no guarantee about which form \p S takes when this method is called.
 template <typename Derived>
 bool RecursiveASTVisitor<Derived>::TraverseInitListExpr(
     InitListExpr *S, DataRecursionQueue *Queue) {
+  if (!getDerived().shouldVisitImplicitCode()) {
+    // Visit only the syntactic form if the clients are not interested in
+    // implicit compiler-generated semantic form.
+    TRY_TO(TraverseSynOrSemInitListExpr(
+        S->isSyntacticForm() ? S : S->getSyntacticForm(), Queue));
+    return true;
+  }
+
   TRY_TO(TraverseSynOrSemInitListExpr(
       S->isSemanticForm() ? S->getSyntacticForm() : S, Queue));
   TRY_TO(TraverseSynOrSemInitListExpr(