[PATCH] Simplify handling of iboutletcollection and vec_type_hint attributes

[Richard Smith]

Ping.

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently, the iboutletcollection and vec_type_hint attributes are parsed
> by contorting the normal list-of-expressions parsing logic. For
> iboutletcollection, the "type" is parsed manually, by picking out an
> identifier followed by an (optional) list of angle-bracketed identifiers,
> and the latter is ignored. This is needlessly complex; the attached patch
> modifies them to just parse a type as the attribute argument.
>
> The custom handling also breaks parsing for other kinds of attributes
> which *don't* take a type argument; for instance, in
> "__attribute__((aligned(int)))" we parse and ignore the 'int', and in
> "__attribute__((aligned(int(1))))" we reject a valid expression because we
> get confused and think it's a type. This is not even bug-compatible with
> g++, which does the right thing in these cases.
>
> Other than fixing bugs, this makes one semantic change: when given a
> protocol-qualified object type, IBOutletCollectionAttr now stores the full
> type (including the protocol list) where it previously just stored the
> interface. I've updated the only consumer of this information that I could
> find (in libclang).
>
> Please review!
> Thanks.
>
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