sammccall marked 2 inline comments as done.
sammccall added inline comments.


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Comment at: clangd/XRefs.cpp:38
+  // Only a single declaration is allowed.
+  if (isa<ValueDecl>(D)) // except cases above
+    return D;
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hokein wrote:
> sammccall wrote:
> > hokein wrote:
> > > is this a case that we were missing before? can we add a unittest for it 
> > > (I didn't find a related change in the unittest).
> > Previously, this function only had to be correct for things that can be 
> > declared and defined separately.
> > For some decls that are always definitions (e.g. member variables) we would 
> > return nullptr here, and treat them as decl-only ... but that was OK, 
> > because the return value was just "a list of locations" and it didn't 
> > matter whether we treated them as decls or defs when there's just one.
> > 
> > However now the return type is "here's the decl, and here's the def". 
> > Without this change, we have Definition == llvm::None for e.g. member 
> > variables. While the LSP method falls back from def->decl so you probably 
> > can't observe this problem, API users can.
> > 
> > This is in fact covered by the tests, though it's kind of indirect (this is 
> > a private helper function, after all).
> > 
> Thanks for the explanation. Maybe add more in the comment?
Added a little bit - there's not really so much to say, because the new 
behavior is kind of the obvious one.
The old behavior ("just return nullptr if it doesn't matter") maybe deserved a 
longer comment, but we didn't notice.


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