Original PR: #130537
Originally reverted due to revert of dependent commit. Relanding with no
changes.
This changes the MemberPointerType representation to use a
NestedNameSpecifier instead of a Type to represent the base class.
Since the qualifiers are always parsed as nested names, there was an
impedance mismatch when converting these back and forth into types, and
this led to issues in preserving sugar.
The nested names are indeed a better match for these, as the differences
which a QualType can represent cannot be expressed syntatically, and
they represent the use case more exactly, being either dependent or
referring to a CXXRecord, unqualified.
This patch also makes the MemberPointerType able to represent sugar for
a {up/downcast}cast conversion of the base class, although for now the
underlying type is canonical, as preserving the sugar up to that point
requires further work.
As usual, includes a few drive-by fixes in order to make use of the
improvements.
Original PR: #130537
Reland after updating lldb too.
This changes the MemberPointerType representation to use a
NestedNameSpecifier instead of a Type to represent the base class.
Since the qualifiers are always parsed as nested names, there was an
impedance mismatch when converting these back and forth into types, and
this led to issues in preserving sugar.
The nested names are indeed a better match for these, as the differences
which a QualType can represent cannot be expressed syntatically, and
they represent the use case more exactly, being either dependent or
referring to a CXXRecord, unqualified.
This patch also makes the MemberPointerType able to represent sugar for
a {up/downcast}cast conversion of the base class, although for now the
underlying type is canonical, as preserving the sugar up to that point
requires further work.
As usual, includes a few drive-by fixes in order to make use of the
improvements.
This changes the MemberPointerType representation to use a
NestedNameSpecifier instead of a Type to represent the class.
Since the qualifiers are always parsed as nested names, there was an
impedance mismatch when converting these back and forth into types, and
this led to issues in preserving sugar.
The nested names are indeed a better match for these, as the differences
which a QualType can represent cannot be expressed syntactically, and it
also represents the use case more exactly, being either dependent or
referring to a CXXRecord, unqualified.
This patch also makes the MemberPointerType able to represent sugar for
a {up/downcast}cast conversion of the base class, although for now the
underlying type is canonical, as preserving the sugar up to that point
requires further work.
As usual, includes a few drive-by fixes in order to make use of the
improvements, and removing some duplications, for example
CheckBaseClassAccess is deduplicated from across SemaAccess and
SemaCast.
Reland https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/83237
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(Original comments)
Currently all the specializations of a template (including
instantiation, specialization and partial specializations) will be
loaded at once if we want to instantiate another instance for the
template, or find instantiation for the template, or just want to
complete the redecl chain.
This means basically we need to load every specializations for the
template once the template declaration got loaded. This is bad since
when we load a specialization, we need to load all of its template
arguments. Then we have to deserialize a lot of unnecessary
declarations.
For example,
```
// M.cppm
export module M;
export template <class T>
class A {};
export class ShouldNotBeLoaded {};
export class Temp {
A<ShouldNotBeLoaded> AS;
};
// use.cpp
import M;
A<int> a;
```
We have a specialization ` A<ShouldNotBeLoaded>` in `M.cppm` and we
instantiate the template `A` in `use.cpp`. Then we will deserialize
`ShouldNotBeLoaded` surprisingly when compiling `use.cpp`. And this
patch tries to avoid that.
Given that the templates are heavily used in C++, this is a pain point
for the performance.
This patch adds MultiOnDiskHashTable for specializations in the
ASTReader. Then we will only deserialize the specializations with the
same template arguments. We made that by using ODRHash for the template
arguments as the key of the hash table.
To review this patch, I think `ASTReaderDecl::AddLazySpecializations`
may be a good entry point.
Currently all the specializations of a template (including
instantiation, specialization and partial specializations) will be
loaded at once if we want to instantiate another instance for the
template, or find instantiation for the template, or just want to
complete the redecl chain.
This means basically we need to load every specializations for the
template once the template declaration got loaded. This is bad since
when we load a specialization, we need to load all of its template
arguments. Then we have to deserialize a lot of unnecessary
declarations.
For example,
```
// M.cppm
export module M;
export template <class T>
class A {};
export class ShouldNotBeLoaded {};
export class Temp {
A<ShouldNotBeLoaded> AS;
};
// use.cpp
import M;
A<int> a;
```
We should a specialization ` A<ShouldNotBeLoaded>` in `M.cppm` and we
instantiate the template `A` in `use.cpp`. Then we will deserialize
`ShouldNotBeLoaded` surprisingly when compiling `use.cpp`. And this
patch tries to avoid that.
Given that the templates are heavily used in C++, this is a pain point
for the performance.
This patch adds MultiOnDiskHashTable for specializations in the
ASTReader. Then we will only deserialize the specializations with the
same template arguments. We made that by using ODRHash for the template
arguments as the key of the hash table.
To review this patch, I think `ASTReaderDecl::AddLazySpecializations`
may be a good entry point.
The patch was reviewed in
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/83237 but that PR is a stacked
PR. But I feel the intention of the stacked PRs get lost during the
review process. So I feel it is better to merge the commits into a
single commit instead of merging them in the PR page. It is better for
us to cherry-pick and revert.
