aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D94092#2479684 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D94092#2479684>, @erichkeane wrote:

> I'm not sure how well Attr.td's constraints are enforced on type attributes, 
> as these often happen before parsing is completely done.

Type (and statement) attributes do not have the same automatic error checking 
that declaration attributes enjoy (yet), so perhaps this was misguided error 
handling code.

> I'd imagine this code was put into place at least the 1st time for good 
> reason, but I'm curious as to why we wouldn't have tests that cover that (or, 
> as you assert, it could simply be that this is simply dead code).

I think it's dead code. In `ParseAttributeArgsCommon()` in `ParseDecl.cpp`, we 
check to see whether the attribute definition from `Attr.td` specifies an 
identifier argument or not. If it doesn't (which these don't), then it parses 
the identifier as an expression instead. So I don't think there's a way to hit 
these code paths, even in template cases.

> I'm generally OK with this (the asserts are unnecessary), but would like 
> @aaron.ballman to double check my expectations here.

My expectation is that it's dead code, but I've been surprised before. :-D


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