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<title>[clang] NFC: reintroduce clang/include/clang/AST/Type.h (#155050)</title>
<updated>2025-08-27T16:11:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-27T16:11:34+00:00</published>
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This reintroduces `Type.h`, having earlier been renamed to `TypeBase.h`,
as a redirection to `TypeBase.h`, and redirects most users to include
the former instead.

This is a preparatory patch for being able to provide inline definitions
for `Type` methods which would otherwise cause a circular dependency
with `Decl{,CXX}.h`.

Doing these operations into their own NFC patch helps the git rename
detection logic work, preserving the history.

This patch makes clang just a little slower to build (~0.17%), just
because it makes more code indirectly include `DeclCXX.h`.</content>
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This reintroduces `Type.h`, having earlier been renamed to `TypeBase.h`,
as a redirection to `TypeBase.h`, and redirects most users to include
the former instead.

This is a preparatory patch for being able to provide inline definitions
for `Type` methods which would otherwise cause a circular dependency
with `Decl{,CXX}.h`.

Doing these operations into their own NFC patch helps the git rename
detection logic work, preserving the history.

This patch makes clang just a little slower to build (~0.17%), just
because it makes more code indirectly include `DeclCXX.h`.</pre>
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<title>[clang] NFC: rename clang/include/clang/AST/Type.h to TypeBase.h (#155049)</title>
<updated>2025-08-27T16:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-27T16:09:48+00:00</published>
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This is a preparatory patch, to be able to provide inline definitions
for `Type` functions which depend on `Decl{,CXX}.h`. As the latter also
depends on `Type.h`, this would not be possible without some
reorganizing.

Splitting this rename into its own patch allows git to track this as a
rename, and preserve all git history, and not force any code
reformatting.

A later NFC patch will reintroduce `Type.h` as redirection to
`TypeBase.h`, rewriting most places back to directly including `Type.h`
instead of `TypeBase.h`, leaving only a handful of places where this is
necessary.

Then yet a later patch will exploit this by making more stuff inline.</content>
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This is a preparatory patch, to be able to provide inline definitions
for `Type` functions which depend on `Decl{,CXX}.h`. As the latter also
depends on `Type.h`, this would not be possible without some
reorganizing.

Splitting this rename into its own patch allows git to track this as a
rename, and preserve all git history, and not force any code
reformatting.

A later NFC patch will reintroduce `Type.h` as redirection to
`TypeBase.h`, rewriting most places back to directly including `Type.h`
instead of `TypeBase.h`, leaving only a handful of places where this is
necessary.

Then yet a later patch will exploit this by making more stuff inline.</pre>
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<title>[clang] Improve nested name specifier AST representation (#147835)</title>
<updated>2025-08-09T08:06:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-08-09T08:06:53+00:00</published>
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This is a major change on how we represent nested name qualifications in
the AST.

* The nested name specifier itself and how it's stored is changed. The
prefixes for types are handled within the type hierarchy, which makes
canonicalization for them super cheap, no memory allocation required.
Also translating a type into nested name specifier form becomes a no-op.
An identifier is stored as a DependentNameType. The nested name
specifier gains a lightweight handle class, to be used instead of
passing around pointers, which is similar to what is implemented for
TemplateName. There is still one free bit available, and this handle can
be used within a PointerUnion and PointerIntPair, which should keep
bit-packing aficionados happy.
* The ElaboratedType node is removed, all type nodes in which it could
previously apply to can now store the elaborated keyword and name
qualifier, tail allocating when present.
* TagTypes can now point to the exact declaration found when producing
these, as opposed to the previous situation of there only existing one
TagType per entity. This increases the amount of type sugar retained,
and can have several applications, for example in tracking module
ownership, and other tools which care about source file origins, such as
IWYU. These TagTypes are lazily allocated, in order to limit the
increase in AST size.

This patch offers a great performance benefit.

It greatly improves compilation time for
[stdexec](https://github.com/NVIDIA/stdexec). For one datapoint, for
`test_on2.cpp` in that project, which is the slowest compiling test,
this patch improves `-c` compilation time by about 7.2%, with the
`-fsyntax-only` improvement being at ~12%.

This has great results on compile-time-tracker as well:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/700dce98-2cab-4aa8-97d1-b038c0bee831)

This patch also further enables other optimziations in the future, and
will reduce the performance impact of template specialization resugaring
when that lands.

It has some other miscelaneous drive-by fixes.

About the review: Yes the patch is huge, sorry about that. Part of the
reason is that I started by the nested name specifier part, before the
ElaboratedType part, but that had a huge performance downside, as
ElaboratedType is a big performance hog. I didn't have the steam to go
back and change the patch after the fact.

There is also a lot of internal API changes, and it made sense to remove
ElaboratedType in one go, versus removing it from one type at a time, as
that would present much more churn to the users. Also, the nested name
specifier having a different API avoids missing changes related to how
prefixes work now, which could make existing code compile but not work.

How to review: The important changes are all in
`clang/include/clang/AST` and `clang/lib/AST`, with also important
changes in `clang/lib/Sema/TreeTransform.h`.

The rest and bulk of the changes are mostly consequences of the changes
in API.

PS: TagType::getDecl is renamed to `getOriginalDecl` in this patch, just
for easier to rebasing. I plan to rename it back after this lands.

Fixes #136624
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/43179
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/68670
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/92757</content>
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This is a major change on how we represent nested name qualifications in
the AST.

* The nested name specifier itself and how it's stored is changed. The
prefixes for types are handled within the type hierarchy, which makes
canonicalization for them super cheap, no memory allocation required.
Also translating a type into nested name specifier form becomes a no-op.
An identifier is stored as a DependentNameType. The nested name
specifier gains a lightweight handle class, to be used instead of
passing around pointers, which is similar to what is implemented for
TemplateName. There is still one free bit available, and this handle can
be used within a PointerUnion and PointerIntPair, which should keep
bit-packing aficionados happy.
* The ElaboratedType node is removed, all type nodes in which it could
previously apply to can now store the elaborated keyword and name
qualifier, tail allocating when present.
* TagTypes can now point to the exact declaration found when producing
these, as opposed to the previous situation of there only existing one
TagType per entity. This increases the amount of type sugar retained,
and can have several applications, for example in tracking module
ownership, and other tools which care about source file origins, such as
IWYU. These TagTypes are lazily allocated, in order to limit the
increase in AST size.

This patch offers a great performance benefit.

It greatly improves compilation time for
[stdexec](https://github.com/NVIDIA/stdexec). For one datapoint, for
`test_on2.cpp` in that project, which is the slowest compiling test,
this patch improves `-c` compilation time by about 7.2%, with the
`-fsyntax-only` improvement being at ~12%.

This has great results on compile-time-tracker as well:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/700dce98-2cab-4aa8-97d1-b038c0bee831)

This patch also further enables other optimziations in the future, and
will reduce the performance impact of template specialization resugaring
when that lands.

It has some other miscelaneous drive-by fixes.

About the review: Yes the patch is huge, sorry about that. Part of the
reason is that I started by the nested name specifier part, before the
ElaboratedType part, but that had a huge performance downside, as
ElaboratedType is a big performance hog. I didn't have the steam to go
back and change the patch after the fact.

There is also a lot of internal API changes, and it made sense to remove
ElaboratedType in one go, versus removing it from one type at a time, as
that would present much more churn to the users. Also, the nested name
specifier having a different API avoids missing changes related to how
prefixes work now, which could make existing code compile but not work.

How to review: The important changes are all in
`clang/include/clang/AST` and `clang/lib/AST`, with also important
changes in `clang/lib/Sema/TreeTransform.h`.

The rest and bulk of the changes are mostly consequences of the changes
in API.

PS: TagType::getDecl is renamed to `getOriginalDecl` in this patch, just
for easier to rebasing. I plan to rename it back after this lands.

Fixes #136624
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/43179
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/68670
Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/92757</pre>
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<title>[Clang][AST][NFC] Introduce `NamespaceBaseDecl` (#149123)</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T01:01:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yanzuo Liu</name>
<email>zwuis@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-18T01:01:47+00:00</published>
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Add `NamespaceBaseDecl` as common base class of `NamespaceDecl` and
`NamespaceAliasDecl`. This simplifies `NestedNameSpecifier` a bit.

Co-authored-by: Matheus Izvekov &lt;mizvekov@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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Add `NamespaceBaseDecl` as common base class of `NamespaceDecl` and
`NamespaceAliasDecl`. This simplifies `NestedNameSpecifier` a bit.

Co-authored-by: Matheus Izvekov &lt;mizvekov@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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<title>[Clang] Optimize some `getBeginLoc` implementations (#141058)</title>
<updated>2025-05-29T08:25:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>cor3ntin</name>
<email>corentinjabot@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-05-29T08:25:53+00:00</published>
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The bulk of the changes are in `CallExpr`

We cache Begin/End source locs in the trailing objects, in the space
left by making the offset to the trailing objects static.
We also set a flag to indicate that we are calling an explicit object
member function, further reducing the cost of getBeginLoc.

Fixes #140876</content>
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The bulk of the changes are in `CallExpr`

We cache Begin/End source locs in the trailing objects, in the space
left by making the offset to the trailing objects static.
We also set a flag to indicate that we are calling an explicit object
member function, further reducing the cost of getBeginLoc.

Fixes #140876</pre>
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<title>[clang] fix NestedNameSpecifier dependency calculation (#135067)</title>
<updated>2025-04-09T22:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-09T22:44:40+00:00</published>
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A NestedNameSpecifier of TypeSpec kind can be non-dependent even if its
prefix is dependent, when for example the prefix is an injected class
type but the type itself is a simple alias to a non-dependent type.

This issue was a bit hard to observe because if it is an alias to a
class type, then we (for some unknown reason) ignored that the NNS was
dependent in the first place, which wouldn't happen with an enum type.

This could have been a workaround for previous dependency bugs, and is
not relevant anymore for any of the test cases in the tree, so this
patch also removes that.

The other kinds of dependencies are still relevant. If the prefix
contains an unexpanded pack, then this NNS is still unexpanded, and
likewise for errors.

This fixes a regression reported here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133610#issuecomment-2787909829
which was introduced by https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133610

There are no release notes since the regression was never released.</content>
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A NestedNameSpecifier of TypeSpec kind can be non-dependent even if its
prefix is dependent, when for example the prefix is an injected class
type but the type itself is a simple alias to a non-dependent type.

This issue was a bit hard to observe because if it is an alias to a
class type, then we (for some unknown reason) ignored that the NNS was
dependent in the first place, which wouldn't happen with an enum type.

This could have been a workaround for previous dependency bugs, and is
not relevant anymore for any of the test cases in the tree, so this
patch also removes that.

The other kinds of dependencies are still relevant. If the prefix
contains an unexpanded pack, then this NNS is still unexpanded, and
likewise for errors.

This fixes a regression reported here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133610#issuecomment-2787909829
which was introduced by https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/133610

There are no release notes since the regression was never released.</pre>
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<title>[clang] improved preservation of template keyword (#133610)</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T20:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T20:15:18+00:00</published>
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<title>Fix MSVC "not all control paths return a value" warning. NFC.</title>
<updated>2025-03-27T08:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Pilgrim</name>
<email>llvm-dev@redking.me.uk</email>
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<published>2025-03-27T08:55:47+00:00</published>
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<title>[clang] fix deduction of member pointers with dependent named classes (#133113)</title>
<updated>2025-03-26T18:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-26T18:51:41+00:00</published>
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This fixes a regression when interpreting a nested name specifier for
deduction purposes in member pointers.

This introduces a helper for fully translating a nested name specifier
into a type.

This regression was introduced here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130537
and was reported here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/132401#issuecomment-2751489581

No release notes, since this regression was never released.</content>
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This fixes a regression when interpreting a nested name specifier for
deduction purposes in member pointers.

This introduces a helper for fully translating a nested name specifier
into a type.

This regression was introduced here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130537
and was reported here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/132401#issuecomment-2751489581

No release notes, since this regression was never released.</pre>
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<title>Reland: [clang] preserve class type sugar when taking pointer to member (#132401)</title>
<updated>2025-03-21T16:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matheus Izvekov</name>
<email>mizvekov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-21T16:20:52+00:00</published>
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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.</content>
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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.</pre>
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