Douglas Gregor 1ac1b63c9c Implement variance for Objective-C type parameters. ...

Introduce co- and contra-variance for Objective-C type parameters,
which allows us to express that (for example) an NSArray is covariant
in its type parameter. This means that NSArray<NSMutableString *> * is
a subtype of NSArray<NSString *> *, which is expected of the immutable
Foundation collections.

Type parameters can be annotated with __covariant or __contravariant
to make them co- or contra-variant, respectively. This feature can be
detected by __has_feature(objc_generics_variance). Implements
rdar://problem/20217490.

llvm-svn: 241549

2015-07-07 03:58:54 +00:00

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