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Commit 5689b38c authored by Dmitri Gribenko's avatar Dmitri Gribenko
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Removed a RecursiveASTVisitor feature to visit operator kinds with different methods

Summary:
This feature was only used in two places, but contributed a non-trivial
amount to the complexity of RecursiveASTVisitor, and was buggy (see my
recent patches where I was fixing the bugs that I noticed). I don't
think the convenience benefit of this feature is worth the complexity.

Besides complexity, another issue with the current state of
RecursiveASTVisitor is the non-uniformity in how it handles different
AST nodes. All AST nodes follow a regular pattern, but operators are
special -- and this special behavior not documented. Correct usage of
RecursiveASTVisitor relies on shadowing member functions with specific
names and signatures. Near misses don't cause any compile-time errors,
incorrectly named or typed methods are just silently ignored. Therefore,
predictability of RecursiveASTVisitor API is quite important.

This change reduces the size of the `clang` binary by 38 KB (0.2%) in
release mode, and by 7 MB (0.3%) in debug mode. The `clang-tidy` binary
is reduced by 205 KB (0.3%) in release mode, and by 5 MB (0.4%) in debug
mode. I don't think these code size improvements are significant enough
to justify this change on its own (for me, the primary motivation is
reducing code complexity), but they I think are a nice side-effect.

Reviewers: rsmith, sammccall, ymandel, aaron.ballman

Reviewed By: rsmith, sammccall, ymandel, aaron.ballman

Subscribers: cfe-commits

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82921
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