Krystian Stasiowski acf5ad2a4e [Clang][Sema] Diagnose current instantiation used as an incomplete base class (#92597) ...

Consider the following:
```
template<typename T>
struct A
{
    struct B : A { };
};
```
According to [class.derived.general] p2:
> [...] A _class-or-decltype_ shall denote a (possibly cv-qualified)
class type that is not an incompletely defined class; any cv-qualifiers
are ignored. [...]

Although GCC and EDG rejects this, Clang accepts it. This is incorrect,
as `A` is incomplete within its own definition (outside of a
complete-class context). This patch correctly diagnoses instances where
the current instantiation is used as a base class before it is complete.

Conversely, Clang erroneously rejects the following:
```
template<typename T>
struct A 
{
    struct B;

    struct C : B { };

    struct B : C { }; // error: circular inheritance between 'C' and 'A::B'
};
```
Though it may seem like no valid specialization of this template can be
instantiated, an explicit specialization of either member classes for an
implicit instantiated specialization of `A` would permit the definition
of the other member class to be instantiated, e.g.:
```
template<>
struct A<int>::B { };

A<int>::C c; // ok
```
So this patch also does away with this error. This means that circular
inheritance is diagnosed during instantiation of the definition as a
consequence of requiring the base class type to be complete (matching
the behavior of GCC and EDG).

2024-05-20 14:44:59 -04:00

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