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This is an alternative approach to #164607

This can be reviewed commit by commit, each commit passes tests.
My goal is for a follow-up to remove lint_name_normalized completely and replace it by a LintId

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/// - `custom_tool::blah::bleh` -> `blah::bleh`
pub lint_name: Symbol,
/// For example, `single_use_lifetime` is changed to `single_use_lifetimes`.
pub lint_name_normalized: Symbol,

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My goal for a follow-up PR is to change this field from a Symbol that needs to be looked up in LintStore to a LintId. I think this should be possible, but encoding and decoding will be a challenge. I think this PR is already a good step forwards regardless.

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pub use attributes::util::{is_builtin_attr, parse_version};
pub use context::ShouldEmit;
pub use diagnostics::ParsedDescription;
pub use diagnostics::{ParsedDescription, RenamedLintSuggestion, UnknownLintSuggestion};

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I'm not sure if people find it cursed to export diagnostic structs such that they can be re-used. I like it

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I don't, it can hide unused diagnostics 😅

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While unused diagnostics are bad, the alternative is duplicating the suggestion structs which risks them diverging when someone edits one but not the other. I think that's worse

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Some changes occurred in compiler/rustc_attr_parsing

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clippy is developed in its own repository. If possible, consider making this change to rust-lang/rust-clippy instead.

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Some changes occurred in compiler/rustc_passes/src/check_attr.rs

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☀️ Try build successful (CI)
Build commit: 00e2c28 (00e2c28e2c046bbcd149ca7f1bf88c8cfc9e8875)
Base parent: dc44e7f (dc44e7f2c436b6041742e138b9c2176f093196d5)

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Finished benchmarking commit (00e2c28): comparison URL.

Overall result: ✅ improvements - no action needed

Benchmarking means the PR may be perf-sensitive. Consider adding rollup=never if this change is not fit for rolling up.

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I don't think this change is correct, it means lowering ast to hir depends on what lints have been registered. Does this mean cargo clippy and cargo check could produce different artefacts? What happens when rust-analyzer decides to implement its own lints? (it's possible, it's a pregistered tool).

Can you talk to people more knowledgeable about this and get them to sign off on this? The people that are working on sharing cargo build caches probably have opinions about this.

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We will need the `lint_tools` in the next commits
This is a lot of code being moved around, but not much of the logic changes. I changed some stuff though, so I recommend reviewing the logic side by side.
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This PR was rebased onto a different main commit. Here's a range-diff highlighting what actually changed.

Rebasing is a normal part of keeping PRs up to date, so no action is needed—this note is just to help reviewers.

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Makes sense to me. Thanks @JonathanBrouwer and @mejrs.

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Makes sense. Thanks @JonathanBrouwer.

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We talked about this in the lang call today. With @tmandry's agreement as well (since we were the two boxes checked):

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We talked about this in today's @rust-lang/lang meeting. On further reflection, we don't think we should do this as proposed.

If we're understanding correctly, this would in general reject unknown lint names pre-macro-expansion. So, for instance, this would error after this PR:

macro_rules! discard {
    ($( $tt:tt )*) => {}
}

fn main() {
    discard! {
        #[allow(not_a_tool::doesnt_exist)]
        #[allow(doesnt_exist)]
        #[allow(raw_pointer_derive)]
        println!();
    }
}

(If that isn't the case please tell us that, as it affects our conclusion here.)

Rejecting unknown lint names pre-macro-expansion seems surprising. If the macro doesn't emit invalid attributes, there shouldn't be an error if its input contained them. The macro could drop them on the floor as above, or do something creative with them.

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If we're understanding correctly, this would in general reject unknown lint names pre-macro-expansion.

I just tested this,1 it is not rejected.

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  1. with rustup-toolchain-install-master 47dd86e0ec4beaca68099fc233dd505f33dcd315 ↩

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The code in your example would not emit diagnostics with this PR.
This PR emits the semantic diagnostics on lint attributes on macros, just before they're expanded.
The println!() macro is never expanded in your example, and therefore the attributes on the macro are never semantically checked.

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@JonathanBrouwer So, if these attributes were applied to a non-macro, this would likewise not be an error, and this is just about when we consider attributes to be processed when they're applied to a macro? Essentially, "attributes applied to a macro will be processed when that macro is expanded"?

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The following code already emits diagnostics on main:

identity!{
    #[allow(not_a_tool::doesnt_exist)] // ERROR "unknown tool name `not_a_tool`"
    #[allow(doesnt_exist)] // LINT "unknown lint: `doesnt_exist`"
    #[allow(raw_pointer_derive)] // LINT "lint `raw_pointer_derive` has been removed"
    struct Test;
}

This PR specifically changes behavior for lint attributes that don't exist on the AST before expansion, and don't exist on the AST after expansion, but only exist temporarily during expansion. Attributes on macro calls are special because they are discarded after the macro is expanded.

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