[clang] [clang] Add clang::preferred_type attribute for bitfields (PR #69104)

[Vlad Serebrennikov via cfe-commits]

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@@ -5910,6 +5910,30 @@ static void handleBuiltinAliasAttr(Sema &S, Decl *D,
   D->addAttr(::new (S.Context) BuiltinAliasAttr(S.Context, AL, Ident));
 }
 
+static void handleDebugInfoTypeAttr(Sema &S, Decl *D, const ParsedAttr &AL) {
+  if (!AL.hasParsedType()) {
+    S.Diag(AL.getLoc(), diag::err_attribute_wrong_number_arguments) << AL << 1;
+    return;
+  }
+
+  TypeSourceInfo *ParmTSI = nullptr;
+  QualType type = S.GetTypeFromParser(AL.getTypeArg(), &ParmTSI);
+  assert(ParmTSI && "no type source info for attribute argument");
+
+  if (type->isEnumeralType()) {
+    QualType BitfieldType = llvm::cast<FieldDecl>(D)->getType();
+    QualType EnumUnderlyingType =
+        type->getAs<EnumType>()->getDecl()->getIntegerType();
+    if (EnumUnderlyingType != BitfieldType) {
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Endilll wrote:

We don't really care about the underlying type compiler deduced, right? We just shove them into unsigned bit-fields.
All the more reason to move towards fixed underlying type, I believe.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/69104