[compiler-rt] [clang-tools-extra] [libcxx] [clang] [libc] [llvm] [flang] [Clang] Generate the GEP instead of adding AST nodes (PR #73730)

[Bill Wendling via llvm-commits]

bwendling wrote:

> I don't mean for this next bit to sound as aggressive or irritated as it might but #73168 has been open for almost a month now and it is actively preventing us from testing the Linux kernel against tip of tree LLVM because (for better or worse...) the kernel has started deploying `__attribute__((__counted_by__(...)))` annotations (and other developers are hitting this too: #75173).

Apparently, the `Scope` variable can be NULL? Fix.ed

> Can we please come to some consensus so that issue can be resolved?

This supposed bug fix snowballed out of control. I'd be happy to revert to a previous version and then submit the newer work as a improvements.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/73730