Use ExprResult& instead of Expr *& in Sema
This patch authored by Eric Niebler. Many methods on the Sema class (e.g. ConvertPropertyForRValue) take Expr pointers as in/out parameters (Expr *&). This is especially true for the routines that apply implicit conversions to nodes in-place. This design is workable only as long as those conversions cannot fail. If they are allowed to fail, they need a way to report their failures. The typical way of doing this in clang is to use an ExprResult, which has an extra bit to signal a valid/invalid state. Returning ExprResult is de riguour elsewhere in the Sema interface. We suggest changing the Expr *& parameters in the Sema interface to ExprResult &. This increases interface consistency and maintainability. This interface change is important for work supporting MS-style C++ properties. For reasons explained here <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2011-February/013180.html>, seemingly trivial operations like rvalue/lvalue conversions that formerly could not fail now can. (The reason is that given the semantics of the feature, getter/setter method lookup cannot happen until the point of use, at which point it may be found that the method does not exist, or it may have the wrong type, or overload resolution may fail, or it may be inaccessible.) llvm-svn: 129143
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