Currently, clang postpones all semantic analysis of unary operators with
operands of pointer/pointer to member/array/function type until
instantiation whenever that type is dependent (e.g. `T*` where `T` is a
type template parameter). Consequently, the uninstantiated AST nodes all
have the type `ASTContext::DependentTy` (which, for the purposes of
#90152, is undesirable as that type may be the current instantiation!
(e.g. `*this`))
This patch moves the point at which we perform semantic analysis for
such expression to be prior to instantiation.
This patch adds the noderef attribute in clang and checks for dereferences of
types that have this attribute. This attribute is currently used by sparse and
would like to be ported to clang.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49511
llvm-svn: 348442
