[AST] Add UsingType: a sugar type for types found via UsingDecl
Currently there's no way to find the UsingDecl that a typeloc found its underlying type through. Compare to DeclRefExpr::getFoundDecl(). Design decisions: - a sugar type, as there are many contexts this type of use may appear in - UsingType is a leaf like TypedefType, the underlying type has no TypeLoc - not unified with UnresolvedUsingType: a single name is appealing, but being sometimes-sugar is often fiddly. - not unified with TypedefType: the UsingShadowDecl is not a TypedefNameDecl or even a TypeDecl, and users think of these differently. - does not cover other rarer aliases like objc @compatibility_alias, in order to be have a concrete API that's easy to understand. - implicitly desugared by the hasDeclaration ASTMatcher, to avoid breaking existing patterns and following the precedent of ElaboratedType. Scope: - This does not cover types associated with template names introduced by using declarations. A future patch should introduce a sugar TemplateName variant for this. (CTAD deduced types fall under this) - There are enough AST matchers to fix the in-tree clang-tidy tests and probably any other matchers, though more may be useful later. Caveats: - This changes a fairly common pattern in the AST people may depend on matching. Previously, typeLoc(loc(recordType())) matched whether a struct was referred to by its original scope or introduced via using-decl. Now, the using-decl case is not matched, and needs a separate matcher. This is similar to the case of typedefs but nevertheless both adds complexity and breaks existing code. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114251
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