This change is intended as initial setup. The plan is to add
more semantic checks later. I plan to update the documentation
as more semantic checks are added (instead of documenting the
details up front). Most of the code closely mirrors that for
the Swift calling convention. Three places are marked as
[FIXME: swiftasynccc]; those will be addressed once the
corresponding convention is introduced in LLVM.
Reviewed By: rjmccall
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95561
A user reported an issue to me via email that Clang was accepting some
code that GCC was rejecting. After investigation, it turned out to be a
general problem of us failing to properly reject attributes written in
the type position in C when they don't apply to types. The root cause
was a terminology issue -- we sometimes use "CXX11Attr" to mean [[]] in
C++11 mode and sometimes [[]] in general -- and this came back to bite
us because in this particular case, it really meant [[]] in C++ mode.
I fixed the issue by introducing a new function
AttributeCommonInfo::isStandardAttributeSyntax() to represent [[]] in
either C or C++ mode.
This fix pointed out that we've had the issue in some of our existing
tests, which have all been corrected. This resolves
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50954.
GCC 10.1 introduced support for the [[]] style spelling of attributes in C
mode. Similar to how GCC supports __attribute__((foo)) as [[gnu::foo]] in
C++ mode, it now supports the same spelling in C mode as well. This patch
makes a change in Clang so that when you use the GCC attribute spelling,
the attribute is automatically available in all three spellings by default.
However, like Clang, GCC has some attributes it only recognizes in C++ mode
(specifically, abi_tag and init_priority), which this patch also honors.