Question about the ns_bridged attribute

[Aaron Ballman]

For record-keeping purposes, I removed this in r197729.

~Aaron

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com> wrote:
> I don't mind ripping it out at all. Thank you for the information!
>
> ~Aaron
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:07 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 7:13 AM, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com> wrote:
>>> The ns_bridged attribute was added in r140779:
>>>
>>> https://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?logsort=cvs&view=revision&sortby=log&revision=140779
>>>
>>> This attribute creates an AST node, attaches it to a Decl, but no
>>> other part of the compiler makes use of that AST node. The commit
>>> message mentions that this might be interesting for tools to make use
>>> of, but I am wondering whether any tools actually make use of it. From
>>> what I could find on google, there doesn't appear to be much mention
>>> of what this attribute is used for (if it's used at all).
>>>
>>> I'm trying to determine whether this attribute should continue to
>>> generate an AST node, or whether this was part of an unfinished
>>> feature and the attribute should be removed, or the feature finished.
>>> Either is perfectly fine with me.
>>
>> Oops.  It’s dead code.  The intent was to lay the foundation for what we’re
>> doing now with objc_bridge, but, well, schedules shifted, and we apparently
>> forgot about having added it when we added objc_bridge later.
>>
>> If you wouldn’t mind ripping it out yourself, that would be great; otherwise,
>> please file a bug, and somebody else will get around to it.
>>
>> John.