Long term, I think we should define an enum of attribute argument forms,
and TableGen a mapping from arguments to forms, rather than having a bunch
of mappings from argument to bool and special cases.

That said, this patch LGTM as a shorter-term measure.


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Aaron Ballman <[email protected]>wrote:

> Spare time happened last night; I've attached a patch which
> generalizes this into something table-driven instead of relying on a
> hard-coded list of attributes in ParseDecl.cpp.
>
> ~Aaron
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Aaron Ballman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Richard Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Aaron Ballman <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Instead of hard-coding the attributes which expect a type, is there a
> >>> way we can gather that information off the tablegen?  They currently
> >>> take a TypeArgument as their first argument, so it should be pretty
> >>> simple to modify the attr emitter to provide a list of attributes
> >>> which apply.  Then the parser doesn't have hard-coded knowledge about
> >>> these one-offs.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, we should, but I didn't want to put too much into a single patch.
> >
> > Makes sense; it's easy enough for me to do that work when I have some
> > spare time.
> >
> > ~Aaron
>
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