The attribute is now allowed on an assortment of declarations, to
suppress warnings related to declarations themselves, or all warnings in
the lexical scope of the declaration.
I don't necessarily see a reason to have a list at all, but it does look
as if some of those more niche items aren't properly supported by the
compiler itself so let's maintain a short safe list for now.
The initial implementation raised a question whether the attribute
should apply to lexical declaration context vs. "actual" declaration
context. I'm using "lexical" here because it results in less warnings
suppressed, which is the conservative behavior: we can always expand it
later if we think this is wrong, without breaking any existing code. I
also think that this is the correct behavior that we will probably never
want to change, given that the user typically desires to keep the
suppressions as localized as possible.
The new attribute can be placed on statements in order to suppress
arbitrary warnings produced by static analysis tools at those statements.
Previously such suppressions were implemented as either informal comments
(eg. clang-tidy `// NOLINT:`) or with preprocessor macros (eg.
clang static analyzer's `#ifdef __clang_analyzer__`). The attribute
provides a universal, formal, flexible and neat-looking suppression mechanism.
Implement support for the new attribute in the clang static analyzer;
clang-tidy coming soon.
The attribute allows specifying which specific warnings to suppress,
in the form of free-form strings that are intended to be specific to
the tools, but currently none are actually supported; so this is also
going to be a future improvement.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93110
