Add macro checks to lints

[Manishearth]

From #48385

Many of our lints trigger even when the code is within a macro defined by an external crate. They should include macro checks.

Clippy has a function for this already.

We should include this in librustc::lint somewhere, and use it for various lints. It should not be used for future compat lints.

One possible thing to do here is to work it into the lint framework itself, so that non-future-compat lints which are triggered on macro spans will not actually be emitted.

We should still have the helper function since some lints may involve multiple important spans so they need the ability to check them all.

Ideally there would be a way to turn this off, though -- in case you want to find issues in your macros. It's a tricky problem.

Willing to mentor the basic issue of importing the macro checks and applying them in most lints (or working it into the framework).

[Manishearth]

@Dylan-DPC would you like to work on this?

[oli-obk]

I'm not sure, but @flip1995 might be already on it (see #48364)

[Manishearth]

So that's focusing on span_suggestion -- we need to both fix that and fix the general lint case, except for future compat lints

[oli-obk]

In clippy we are doing this on a case-by-case basis. Do we really want to blanket ignore all lints in local expansions of external macros?

[Manishearth]

Honestly I don't know. Future compat lints must show, but aside from that the cases where we want to still show a lint on a macro expansion is when the linted code is completely within the invocation, which can't be detected easily right now.

[Dylan-DPC-zz]

@Manishearth Ye sure 👍

[Manishearth]

Any updates?

[Dylan-DPC-zz]

@Manishearth haven't started with it. Will work on it this weekend.

[Dylan-DPC-zz]

@Manishearth is there a common place where all lints are used? or i have to hunt down each lint implementation?

[Manishearth]

they all implement EarlyLintPass or LateLintPass. The implementations are scattered.

What you want to do is tweak span_lint and similar functions to do the macro check, except for when the lint is a future compat lint (ignore this part for now)