This was originally added in https://reviews.llvm.org/D142268 to have LLDB display variable typenames that benefit from suppressing defaulted template arguments. We currently represent template aliases as `DW_AT_typedef`s instead of `DW_TAG_template_alias`. This means for types like: ``` template <class _Tp> using __remove_cv_t = __remove_cv(_Tp); template <class _Tp> using remove_cv_t = __remove_cv_t<_Tp>; template<typename T> class optional { using value_type = T; remove_cv_t<value_type> __val_; } ``` we would generate DWARF like: ``` 0x0000274f: DW_TAG_typedef DW_AT_type (0x0000000000002758 "__remove_cv_t<value_type>") DW_AT_name ("remove_cv_t<value_type>") ``` This is an actual libc++ type layout introduced in https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110355, and uncovered a shortcoming of LLDB's data-formatter infrastructure, where we cache formatters on the contents of `DW_AT_name` (which currently wouldn't be a fully resolved typename for template specializations). To unblock the libc++ change, I think we can revert this without much fallout. Then we have two options for follow-up (or do both): 1. reland this but adjust the LLDB formatter cache so it doesn't cache formatters for template specializations 2. implement support for `DW_TAG_template_alias` in LLDB (and make Clang generate them by default).
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