[PATCH] D107292: [clang] adds warning to alert user when they use alternative tokens as references

Tue Aug 3 04:11:46 PDT 2021

aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D107292#2920774 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D107292#2920774>, @dblaikie wrote:

> In D107292#2920746 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D107292#2920746>, @cjdb wrote:
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>> In D107292#2920637 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D107292#2920637>, @dblaikie wrote:
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>>> Not a huge objection - but minor quandry: What's the motivation for this patch? I don't know of any codebase that encourages/uses the alternative tokens and I wonder if adding more usability to them is a worthwhile investment in clang's codebase complexity, etc.
>>
>> There are codebases that use them (all of my non-Google, non-LLVM code does, for example, and I'm not the sole user: just a loud one who's also in a position to patch tooling).
>
> Ah, any pointers to large open source projects that use this?

https://codesearch.isocpp.org/cgi-bin/cgi_ppsearch?q=bitand&search=Search

(Searching for 'and' is a bit less useful because of how much it shows up in assembly, comments, etc.)

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