[[gnu::nonstring]] should work on pointers too

Clang's current implementation only works on array types, but GCC
(which is where we got this attribute) supports it on pointers as well
as arrays.

Fixes #150951

Author: AaronBallman

clang/include/clang/Basic/AttrDocs.td

@@ -9417,9 +9417,9 @@ def NonStringDocs : Documentation {
   let Category = DocCatDecl;
   let Content = [{
 The ``nonstring`` attribute can be applied to the declaration of a variable or
-a field whose type is a character array to specify that the character array is
-not intended to behave like a null-terminated string. This will silence
-diagnostics with code like:
+a field whose type is a character pointer or character array to specify that
+the buffer is not intended to behave like a null-terminated string. This will
+silence diagnostics with code like:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 

clang/lib/Sema/SemaDeclAttr.cpp

@@ -4805,10 +4805,10 @@ void Sema::AddModeAttr(Decl *D, const AttributeCommonInfo &CI,
 
 static void handleNonStringAttr(Sema &S, Decl *D, const ParsedAttr &AL) {
   // This only applies to fields and variable declarations which have an array
-  // type.
+  // type or pointer type, with character elements.
   QualType QT = cast<ValueDecl>(D)->getType();
-  if (!QT->isArrayType() ||
-      !QT->getBaseElementTypeUnsafe()->isAnyCharacterType()) {
+  if ((!QT->isArrayType() && !QT->isPointerType()) ||
+      !QT->getPointeeOrArrayElementType()->isAnyCharacterType()) {
     S.Diag(D->getBeginLoc(), diag::warn_attribute_non_character_array)
         << AL << AL.isRegularKeywordAttribute() << QT << AL.getRange();
     return;

clang/test/Sema/attr-nonstring.c

@@ -229,3 +229,11 @@ struct Outer o2[] = {
     }
   }
 };
+
+// The attribute also works with a pointer type, not just an array type.
+__attribute__((nonstring)) char *ptr1;
+__attribute__((nonstring)) const unsigned char *ptr2;
+struct GH150951 {
+  __attribute__((nonstring)) char *ptr1;
+  __attribute__((nonstring)) const unsigned char *ptr2;
+};