Avoid more `MetaItem`-to-`Attribute` conversions.

There is code for converting `Attribute` (syntactic) to `MetaItem`
(semantic). There is also code for the reverse direction. The reverse
direction isn't really necessary; it's currently only used when
generating attributes, e.g. in `derive` code.

This commit adds some new functions for creating `Attributes`s directly,
without involving `MetaItem`s: `mk_attr_word`, `mk_attr_name_value_str`,
`mk_attr_nested_word`, and
`ExtCtxt::attr_{word,name_value_str,nested_word}`.

These new methods replace the old functions for creating `Attribute`s:
`mk_attr_inner`, `mk_attr_outer`, and `ExtCtxt::attribute`. Those
functions took `MetaItem`s as input, and relied on many other functions
that created `MetaItems`, which are also removed: `mk_name_value_item`,
`mk_list_item`, `mk_word_item`, `mk_nested_word_item`,
`{MetaItem,MetaItemKind,NestedMetaItem}::token_trees`,
`MetaItemKind::attr_args`, `MetaItemLit::{from_lit_kind,to_token}`,
`ExtCtxt::meta_word`.

Overall this cuts more than 100 lines of code and makes thing simpler.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/deriving/cmp/eq.rs b/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/deriving/cmp/eq.rs
index a0b836171be..f861d47ed40 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/deriving/cmp/eq.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/deriving/cmp/eq.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use crate::deriving::path_std;
 use rustc_ast::{self as ast, MetaItem};
 use rustc_data_structures::fx::FxHashSet;
 use rustc_expand::base::{Annotatable, ExtCtxt};
-use rustc_span::symbol::{sym, Ident};
+use rustc_span::symbol::sym;
 use rustc_span::Span;
 use thin_vec::thin_vec;
 
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ pub fn expand_deriving_eq(
     is_const: bool,
 ) {
     let span = cx.with_def_site_ctxt(span);
-    let inline = cx.meta_word(span, sym::inline);
-    let hidden = rustc_ast::attr::mk_nested_word_item(Ident::new(sym::hidden, span));
-    let doc = rustc_ast::attr::mk_list_item(Ident::new(sym::doc, span), vec![hidden]);
-    let no_coverage = cx.meta_word(span, sym::no_coverage);
-    let attrs = thin_vec![cx.attribute(inline), cx.attribute(doc), cx.attribute(no_coverage)];
+    let attrs = thin_vec![
+        cx.attr_word(sym::inline, span),
+        cx.attr_nested_word(sym::doc, sym::hidden, span),
+        cx.attr_word(sym::no_coverage, span)
+    ];
     let trait_def = TraitDef {
         span,
         path: path_std!(cmp::Eq),