Add a flag to build a single ASTContext shared across all compilations (#7567)

Instead of building one Clang `ASTContext` per compilation, the
`--share-cpp-ast` flag causes us to build a single `ASTContext` and
share it across all contexts. One new abstraction is added: `CppDomain`
represents the Carbon-side view of a Clang AST that might be shared
across multiple `SemIR::File`s. This object owns the Clang instance and
the AST.

For now, we have no isolation between the C++ state exposed to different
Carbon compilations, and we have no multiplexing of generated LLVM IR
from C++ into different Carbon compilations, so the mode is not usable
yet. The plan is to keep it behind a flag until it's ready.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
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Richard Smith
2026-07-28 00:19:40 +00:00
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namespace Carbon::SemIR {
CppFile::CppFile(std::unique_ptr<clang::CompilerInstance> clang,
CppFile::CppFile(std::shared_ptr<clang::CompilerInstance> clang,
llvm::LLVMContext* llvm_context)
: clang_(std::move(clang)), llvm_context_(llvm_context) {}