WG14 adopted the _ExtInt feature from Clang for C23, but renamed the
type to be _BitInt. This patch does the vast majority of the work to
rename _ExtInt to _BitInt, which accounts for most of its size. The new
type is exposed in older C modes and all C++ modes as a conforming
extension. However, there are functional changes worth calling out:
* Deprecates _ExtInt with a fix-it to help users migrate to _BitInt.
* Updates the mangling for the type.
* Updates the documentation and adds a release note to warn users what
is going on.
* Adds new diagnostics for use of _BitInt to call out when it's used as
a Clang extension or as a pre-C23 compatibility concern.
* Adds new tests for the new diagnostic behaviors.
I want to call out the ABI break specifically. We do not believe that
this break will cause a significant imposition for early adopters of
the feature, and so this is being done as a full break. If it turns out
there are critical uses where recompilation is not an option for some
reason, we can consider using ABI tags to ease the transition.
Clang implemented the _ExtInt datatype as a bit-precise integer type,
which was then proposed to WG14. WG14 has accepted the proposal
(http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2709.pdf), but Clang
requires some additional work as a result.
In the original Clang implementation, we elected to disallow implicit
conversions involving these types until after WG14 finalized the rules.
This patch implements the rules decided by WG14: no integer promotion
for bit-precise types, conversions prefer the larger of the two types
and in the event of a tie (say _ExtInt(32) and a 32-bit int), the
standard type wins.
There are more changes still needed to conform to N2709, but those will
be handled in follow-up patches.
As reported in PR46774, an invalid arithemetic conversion used in a C
ternary operator resulted in an assertion. This patch replaces that
assertion with a diagnostic stating that the conversion failed.
At the moment, I believe the only case of this happening is _ExtInt
types.
Aaron Ballman