aaron.ballman added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/lib/AST/ASTDumper.cpp:205
+  if (const Decl *D = dyn_cast<Decl>(this))
+    D->dump();
+}
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shafik wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > shafik wrote:
> > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > erichkeane wrote:
> > > > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > > > erichkeane wrote:
> > > > > > > One thing to note is that the 'else' case here is a little 
> > > > > > > uninformative.  See 
> > > > > > > https://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/DeclBase_8cpp_source.html#l00915 
> > > > > > > for some similar logic here (though not sure we should be 
> > > > > > > emulating that).
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > More, I wonder if there is SOME message here that should be 
> > > > > > > dumped for 'else'.
> > > > > > Looking at what inherits from `DeclContext`, is there use of it 
> > > > > > which is *not* a `Decl`? I couldn't find a use where it's not also 
> > > > > > a `Decl`.
> > > > > I've DEFINITELY run into it in the debugger before, but I have no 
> > > > > idea WHAT case that is. It is sometimes just "DeclContext is an 
> > > > > invalid pointer" kinda thing, so it might be worth-while to have SOME 
> > > > > output besides "print nothing", particularly when debugging.
> > > > IIRC, the case this comes up in is when the object is only partially 
> > > > constructed, and so I agree that having an `else` clause here would be 
> > > > useful -- because this interface is predominately used from a debugger, 
> > > > it has to deal with special "impossible" situations a bit more 
> > > > carefully.
> > > So looking at the other dump member functions, all of them seem to assume 
> > > we have a valid `DeclContext` and so they do not have any else either.
> > > 
> > > So maybe we want to think about making the rest a bit smarter as well?
> > > So maybe we want to think about making the rest a bit smarter as well?
> > 
> > What do you have in mind?
> > 
> > I think it's plausible to be in a partially constructed state in terms of 
> > when ctors are called, but I'm far less worried about people calling a dump 
> > method in the middle of the member inits happening.
> > > So maybe we want to think about making the rest a bit smarter as well?
> > 
> > What do you have in mind?
> > 
> > I think it's plausible to be in a partially constructed state in terms of 
> > when ctors are called, but I'm far less worried about people calling a dump 
> > method in the middle of the member inits happening.
> 
> Apologies, what I meant was if we are going to add an `else` here then we 
> should be consistent and add it in the other dump functions as well. 
None of the other DeclContext dump functions cast to `Decl`, so I'm not certain 
there's an `else` to add to any of them, or am I misunderstanding?


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