Summary:
Motivated by the new objc_direct attribute, this change adds a new
attribute that remotes metadata from Protocols that the programmer knows
isn't going to be used at runtime. We simply have the frontend skip
generating any protocol metadata entries (e.g. OBJC_CLASS_NAME,
_OBJC_$_PROTOCOL_INSTANCE_METHDOS, _OBJC_PROTOCOL, etc) for a protocol
marked with `__attribute__((objc_non_runtime_protocol))`.
There are a few APIs used to retrieve a protocol at runtime.
`@protocol(SomeProtocol)` will now error out of the requested protocol
is marked with attribute. `objc_getProtocol` will return `NULL` which
is consistent with the behavior of a non-existing protocol.
Subscribers: cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75574
Nathan Lanza