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Chandler CarruthandGeoff Romer bba037738d Key-type customization in CanonicalValueStore and ClangDecl cleanups (#5743)
The `ClangDecl` struct caused some confusion here -- it is embedding
extra data into a `CanonicalValueStore` that isn't used for lookups or
canonicalization, but is useful to store along side. This changes the
`CanonicalValueStore` to support customized key type for `Lookup` so
that we can provide the more direct API that only takes the relevant
key.

This in turn takes advantage of the support for heterogenous keys in the
underlying `Set` as long as hashing and equality are consistent. We do
need to add support for heterogenous equality comparison with
`clang::Decl*`, but that is fairly easily done now that the
argument-reversed form isn't needed as well.

Lastly, this cleans up the `ClangDecl` customization points to be more
idiomatic by using `operator==` and `CarbonHashValue`. While there, I've
added comments to make it unambiguous why we can use the pointer value
for the underlying `clang::Decl` due to the Clang AST's
address-as-identity model.

Resolves the immediate TODOs around this type.

Future work might involve changing from the current `Add` API to one
more like `Map` and `Set`'s API where a callback is used to create the
object, but that level of API complexity isn't necessarily motivated yet
and can easily be a follow-on if and when its worth doing. The `Add`
code paths *are* working with the `inst_id` in order to create an
instruction if we are importing the Clang declaration. It is the
`Lookup` code paths that never needed to know about the `inst_id` and
became more confusing for having to stub it out in the API.

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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
2025-06-27 20:30:05 +00:00
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