[clang] [clang] Document the type_visibility attribute (PR #79157)

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Author: Louis Dionne (ldionne)

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I was looking for the documentation of that attribute, and the best I could find was a Stackoverflow answer or the commit message that originally introduced the attribute. I figured I might as well document what I find to save everyone time in the future.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/79157.diff


2 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang/include/clang/Basic/Attr.td (+2-2) 
- (modified) clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td (+15) 


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diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Basic/Attr.td b/clang/include/clang/Basic/Attr.td
index 58838b01b4fd7ca..e47107d8edcb378 100644
--- a/clang/include/clang/Basic/Attr.td
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Basic/Attr.td
@@ -3220,8 +3220,8 @@ def TypeVisibility : InheritableAttr {
   let Args = [EnumArgument<"Visibility", "VisibilityType",
                            ["default", "hidden", "internal", "protected"],
                            ["Default", "Hidden", "Hidden", "Protected"]>];
-//  let Subjects = [Tag, ObjCInterface, Namespace];
-  let Documentation = [Undocumented];
+  let Subjects = SubjectList<[Tag, ObjCInterface, Namespace], ErrorDiag>;
+  let Documentation = [TypeVisibilityDocs];
 }
 
 def VecReturn : InheritableAttr {
diff --git a/clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td b/clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td
index 7e633f8e2635a9a..703f7cd314b727c 100644
--- a/clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td
+++ b/clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td
@@ -5557,6 +5557,21 @@ See :doc:`LTOVisibility`.
   }];
 }
 
+def TypeVisibilityDocs : Documentation {
+  let Category = DocCatType;
+  let Content = [{
+The ``type_visibility`` attribute allows the ELF visibility of a type and its vague
+linkage objects (vtable, typeinfo, typeinfo name) to be controlled separately from
+the visibility of functions and data members of the type.
+
+For example, this can be used to give default visibility to the typeinfo and the vtable
+of a type while still keeping hidden visibility on its member functions and static data
+members.
+
+This attribute can only be applied to types and namespaces.
+  }]
+}
+
 def RenderScriptKernelAttributeDocs : Documentation {
   let Category = DocCatFunction;
   let Content = [{

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/79157