heuristics to determine when it's useful to desugar a type for display
to the user. Introduce two C++-specific heuristics:
- For a qualified type (like "foo::bar"), only produce a new
desugred type if desugaring the qualified type ("bar", in this
case) produces something interesting. For example, if "foo::bar"
refers to a class named "bar", don't desugar. However, if
"foo::bar" refers to a typedef of something else, desugar to that
something else. This gives some useful desugaring such as
"foo::bar (aka 'int')".
- Don't desugar class template specialization types like
"basic_string<char>" down to their underlying "class
basic_string<char, char_traits<char>, allocator<char>>, etc.";
it's better just to leave such types alone.
Update diagnostics.html with some discussion and examples of type
preservation in C++, showing qualified names and class template
specialization types.
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specialization names. This way, we keep track of sugared types like
std::vector<Real>
I believe we are now using QualifiedNameTypes everywhere we can. Next
step: QualifiedDeclRefExprs.
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qualified name, e.g.,
foo::x
so that we retain the nested-name-specifier as written in the source
code and can reproduce that qualified name when printing the types
back (e.g., in diagnostics). This is PR3493, which won't be complete
until finished the other tasks mentioned near the end of this commit.
The parser's representation of nested-name-specifiers, CXXScopeSpec,
is now a bit fatter, because it needs to contain the scopes that
precede each '::' and keep track of whether the global scoping
operator '::' was at the beginning. For example, we need to keep track
of the leading '::', 'foo', and 'bar' in
::foo::bar::x
The Action's CXXScopeTy * is no longer a DeclContext *. It's now the
opaque version of the new NestedNameSpecifier, which contains a single
component of a nested-name-specifier (either a DeclContext * or a Type
*, bitmangled).
The new sugar type QualifiedNameType composes a sequence of
NestedNameSpecifiers with a representation of the type we're actually
referring to. At present, we only build QualifiedNameType nodes within
Sema::getTypeName. This will be extended to other type-constructing
actions (e.g., ActOnClassTemplateId).
Also on the way: QualifiedDeclRefExprs will also store a sequence of
NestedNameSpecifiers, so that we can print out the property
nested-name-specifier. I expect to also use this for handling
dependent names like Fibonacci<I - 1>::value.
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Douglas Gregor
Daniel Dunbar