x/exp/apidiff: support for go/types.Alias

[timothy-king]

golang.org/x/exp/apidiff should be updated to support go/types producing Alias nodes. This is required for these tools to type check input code containing type parameterized alias nodes (1.24).

Additionally golang.org/x/exp/cmd/{apidiff, gorelease} should have the gotypesalias=1 GODEBUG setting enabled by default when built with a toolchain >= 1.24. See https://go.dev/cl/627715 for an example of how to do this.

See #69772 for additional context.

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• go/types, x/tools: help tool authors support the new go/types.Alias node #67263
• x/tools/gopls: handle go1.22's go/types.Alias #64581 (closed)
• x/tools: get tests passing with GODEBUG=gotypesalias=1 #65294 (closed)

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[adonovan]

@jba

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/644877 mentions this issue: apidiff: support types.Alias

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/645015 mentions this issue: cmd/{apidiff,gorelease}: use types.Alias when >= 1.23

[gopherbot]

Change https://go.dev/cl/650135 mentions this issue: cmd/{apidiff,gorelease}: delete redundant //go:debug gotypesalias=1 directives [generated]