visible.
The basic problem here is that a given translation unit can use
forward declarations to form pointers to a given type, say,
class X;
X *x;
and then import a module that includes a definition of X:
import XDef;
We will then fail when attempting to access a member of X, e.g.,
x->method()
because the AST reader did not know to look for a default of a class
named X within the new module.
This implementation is a bit of a C-centric hack, because the only
definitions that can have this property are enums, structs, unions,
Objective-C classes, and Objective-C protocols, and all of those are
either visible at the top-level or can't be defined later. Hence, we
can use the out-of-date-ness of the name and the identifier-update
mechanism to force the update.
In C++, we will not be so lucky, and will need a more advanced
solution, because the definitions could be in namespaces defined in
two different modules, e.g.,
// module 1
namespace N { struct X; }
// module 2
namespace N { struct X { /* ... */ }; }
One possible implementation here is for C++ to extend the information
associated with each identifier table to include the declaration IDs
of any definitions associated with that name, regardless of
context. We would have to eagerly load those definitions.
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which a particular declaration resides. Use this information to
customize the "definition of 'blah' must be imported from another
module" diagnostic with the module the user actually has to
import. Additionally, recover by importing that module, so we don't
complain about other names in that module.
Still TODO: coming up with decent Fix-Its for these cases, and expand
this recovery approach for other name lookup failures.
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Douglas Gregor