[AST] Allow limiting the scope of common AST traversals (getParents, RAV).
Summary:
The goal is to allow analyses such as clang-tidy checks to run on a
subset of the AST, e.g. "only on main-file decls" for interactive tools.
Today, these become "problematically global" by running RecursiveASTVisitors
rooted at the TUDecl, or by navigating up via ASTContext::getParent().
The scope is restricted using a set of top-level-decls that RecursiveASTVisitors
should be rooted at. This also applies to the visitor that populates the
parent map, and so the top-level-decls are considered to have no parents.
This patch makes the traversal scope a mutable property of ASTContext.
The more obvious way to do this is to pass the top-level decls to
relevant functions directly, but this has some problems:
- it's error-prone: accidentally mixing restricted and unrestricted
scopes is a performance trap. Interleaving multiple analyses is
common (many clang-tidy checks run matchers or RAVs from matcher callbacks)
- it doesn't map well to the actual use cases, where we really do want
*all* traversals to be restricted.
- it involves a lot of plumbing in parts of the code that don't care
about traversals.
This approach was tried out in D54259 and D54261, I wanted to like it
but it feels pretty awful in practice.
Caveats: to get scope-limiting behavior of RecursiveASTVisitors, callers
have to call the new TraverseAST(Ctx) function instead of TraverseDecl(TU).
I think this is an improvement to the API regardless.
Reviewers: klimek, ioeric
Subscribers: mgorny, cfe-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54309
llvm-svn: 346847
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