https://github.com/purnima-nlp created 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/210007


This patch adds the `readability-redundant-tag` clang-tidy check.
The check matches `TagTypeLoc` nodes and diagnoses redundant `class`, `struct`, 
`union`, and `enum` keywords in C++ declarations. Before emitting a diagnostic, 
it performs a lookup in the enclosing `DeclContext` to determine whether the 
corresponding `TagDecl` is hidden by another declaration.
If the lookup finds a declaration that hides the tag (for example, a variable, 
function, function template, field, or enum constant), the diagnostic is 
suppressed because the elaborated type specifier is required for correct name 
lookup.

 also added regression tests covering:
- redundant `class`/`struct`/`union`/`enum` keywords,
- forward declarations,
- qualified and nested types,
- declarations where the tag is hidden by another declaration.

Fixes #209136.

>From 3bbedb5091fb4cbdc1f35fe2e3cc860b4e7606df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Purnima Shrivastava <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:27:32 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [clang-tidy] Fix redundant-tag check for hidden tag
 declarations

---
 .../clang-tidy/readability/CMakeLists.txt     |  2 +
 .../readability/ReadabilityTidyModule.cpp     |  4 +
 .../readability/RedundantTagCheck.cpp         | 94 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../readability/RedundantTagCheck.h           | 36 +++++++
 .../checkers/readability/redundant-tag.cpp    | 95 +++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 231 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 
clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.cpp
 create mode 100644 clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.h
 create mode 100644 
clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/redundant-tag.cpp

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/CMakeLists.txt 
b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/CMakeLists.txt
index 8a4b5753de890..edd964354a913 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ add_clang_library(clangTidyReadabilityModule STATIC
   RedundantSmartptrGetCheck.cpp
   RedundantStringCStrCheck.cpp
   RedundantStringInitCheck.cpp
+        RedundantTagCheck.cpp
   RedundantTypenameCheck.cpp
   ReferenceToConstructedTemporaryCheck.cpp
   SimplifyBooleanExprCheck.cpp
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ add_clang_library(clangTidyReadabilityModule STATIC
   UseConcisePreprocessorDirectivesCheck.cpp
   UseStdMinMaxCheck.cpp
 
+
   LINK_LIBS
   clangTidy
   clangTidyUtils
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ReadabilityTidyModule.cpp 
b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ReadabilityTidyModule.cpp
index 69b31d6711bcd..ab543f618de00 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ReadabilityTidyModule.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/ReadabilityTidyModule.cpp
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
 #include "UseAnyOfAllOfCheck.h"
 #include "UseConcisePreprocessorDirectivesCheck.h"
 #include "UseStdMinMaxCheck.h"
+#include "RedundantTagCheck.h"
+
 
 namespace clang::tidy {
 namespace readability {
@@ -202,6 +204,8 @@ class ReadabilityModule : public ClangTidyModule {
         "readability-use-concise-preprocessor-directives");
     CheckFactories.registerCheck<UseStdMinMaxCheck>(
         "readability-use-std-min-max");
+    CheckFactories.registerCheck<RedundantTagCheck>(
+    "readability-redundant-tag");
   }
 };
 
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.cpp 
b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3ef167376fc0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+//===--- RedundantTagCheck.cpp - clang-tidy 
-------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM 
Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+#include "RedundantTagCheck.h"
+
+#include "clang/AST/Decl.h"
+#include "clang/AST/DeclTemplate.h"
+#include "clang/AST/TypeLoc.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h"
+#include "clang/Basic/Diagnostic.h"
+#include "clang/Lex/Lexer.h"
+
+using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
+
+namespace clang::tidy::readability {
+
+namespace {
+
+static bool canHideTag(const NamedDecl *D) {
+  D = D->getUnderlyingDecl();
+
+  return isa<VarDecl>(D) ||
+         isa<EnumConstantDecl>(D) ||
+         isa<FunctionDecl>(D) ||
+         isa<FunctionTemplateDecl>(D) ||
+         isa<FieldDecl>(D) ||
+         isa<UnresolvedUsingValueDecl>(D);
+}
+
+} // namespace
+
+void RedundantTagCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
+  Finder->addMatcher(
+      typeLoc(unless(hasAncestor(decl(isInstantiated())))).bind("typeLoc"),
+      this);
+}
+
+void RedundantTagCheck::check(
+    const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
+  const auto *TL = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<TypeLoc>("typeLoc");
+  if (!TL)
+    return;
+
+  if (TL->getType()->isInstantiationDependentType())
+    return;
+
+  const auto TagTL = TL->getAs<TagTypeLoc>();
+  if (!TagTL)
+    return;
+
+  const TagDecl *TD = TagTL.getDecl();
+  if (!TD)
+    return;
+
+  auto Lookup = TD->getDeclContext()->lookup(TD->getDeclName());
+
+  for (NamedDecl *ND : Lookup) {
+    if (declaresSameEntity(ND, TD))
+      continue;
+
+    if (canHideTag(ND))
+      return;
+  }
+
+  SourceLocation KeywordLoc = TagTL.getElaboratedKeywordLoc();
+  if (KeywordLoc.isInvalid())
+    return;
+
+  Token Tok;
+  if (Lexer::getRawToken(KeywordLoc, Tok,
+                         *Result.SourceManager,
+                         getLangOpts()))
+    return;
+
+  llvm::StringRef Keyword = Tok.getRawIdentifier();
+
+  if (Keyword != "struct" &&
+      Keyword != "class" &&
+      Keyword != "union" &&
+      Keyword != "enum")
+    return;
+
+  diag(KeywordLoc,
+       "redundant '%0' keyword in C++ declaration")
+      << Keyword
+      << FixItHint::CreateRemoval(KeywordLoc);
+}
+
+} // namespace clang::tidy::readability
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.h 
b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b1e5dcd0ca29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/readability/RedundantTagCheck.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+//===--- RedundantTagCheck.cpp - clang-tidy 
-------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM 
Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_READABILITY_REDUNDANTTAGCHECK_H
+#define LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_READABILITY_REDUNDANTTAGCHECK_H
+
+#include "../ClangTidyCheck.h"
+
+namespace clang::tidy::readability {
+
+class RedundantTagCheck : public ClangTidyCheck {
+public:
+  RedundantTagCheck(StringRef Name, ClangTidyContext *Context)
+      : ClangTidyCheck(Name, Context) {}
+
+  bool isLanguageVersionSupported(
+      const LangOptions &LangOpts) const override {
+    return LangOpts.CPlusPlus;
+  }
+
+  void registerMatchers(ast_matchers::MatchFinder *Finder) override;
+  void check(const ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) override;
+
+  std::optional<TraversalKind> getCheckTraversalKind() const override {
+    return TK_IgnoreUnlessSpelledInSource;
+  }
+};
+
+} // namespace clang::tidy::readability
+
+#endif
diff --git 
a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/redundant-tag.cpp 
b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/redundant-tag.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f7201a5a797b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/readability/redundant-tag.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+//===--- RedundantTagCheck.cpp - clang-tidy 
-------------------------------===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM 
Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+struct Struct {};
+class Class {};
+union Union {};
+enum Enum {};
+
+void basic() {
+  struct Struct s;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'struct' keyword in 
C++ declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Struct s;
+
+  class Class c;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'class' keyword in C++ 
declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Class c;
+
+  union Union u;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'union' keyword in C++ 
declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Union u;
+
+  enum Enum e;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'enum' keyword in C++ 
declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Enum e;
+}
+
+// Hidden by variable (GitHub issue)
+struct Hidden {} Hidden;
+
+void hiddenByVariable() {
+  struct Hidden h;
+}
+
+// Forward declaration
+struct Forward;
+
+void forwardDecl() {
+  struct Forward *p;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'struct' keyword in 
C++ declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Forward *p;
+}
+
+// Namespace-qualified type
+namespace N {
+struct NS {};
+}
+
+void namespaceQualified() {
+  struct N::NS x;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'struct' keyword in 
C++ declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: N::NS x;
+}
+
+// Nested type
+struct Outer {
+  struct Inner {};
+};
+
+void nestedType() {
+  struct Outer::Inner x;
+  // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: redundant 'struct' keyword in 
C++ declaration
+  // CHECK-FIXES: Outer::Inner x;
+}
+
+// Hidden by function
+struct FuncTag {};
+
+void FuncTag();
+
+void hiddenByFunction() {
+  struct FuncTag x;
+}
+
+// Hidden by enum constant
+struct EnumTag {};
+
+enum { EnumTag };
+
+void hiddenByEnumConstant() {
+  struct EnumTag x;
+}
+
+// Hidden by another variable
+struct A {};
+
+A A;
+
+void anotherHiddenVariable() {
+  struct A x;
+}
\ No newline at end of file

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