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1 //===--- ImplicitConversionInLoopCheck.cpp - clang-tidy--------------------===//
2 //
3 // Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4 // See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6 //
7 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
8 
9 #include "ImplicitConversionInLoopCheck.h"
10 
11 #include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
12 #include "clang/AST/Decl.h"
13 #include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
14 #include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h"
15 #include "clang/Lex/Lexer.h"
16 
17 using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
18 
19 namespace clang::tidy::performance {
20 
21 // Checks if the stmt is a ImplicitCastExpr with a CastKind that is not a NoOp.
22 // The subtlety is that in some cases (user defined conversions), we can
23 // get to ImplicitCastExpr inside each other, with the outer one a NoOp. In this
24 // case we skip the first cast expr.
isNonTrivialImplicitCast(const Stmt * ST)25 static bool isNonTrivialImplicitCast(const Stmt *ST) {
26   if (const auto *ICE = dyn_cast<ImplicitCastExpr>(ST)) {
27     return (ICE->getCastKind() != CK_NoOp) ||
28            isNonTrivialImplicitCast(ICE->getSubExpr());
29   }
30   return false;
31 }
32 
registerMatchers(MatchFinder * Finder)33 void ImplicitConversionInLoopCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
34   // We look for const ref loop variables that (optionally inside an
35   // ExprWithCleanup) materialize a temporary, and contain a implicit
36   // conversion. The check on the implicit conversion is done in check() because
37   // we can't access implicit conversion subnode via matchers: has() skips casts
38   // and materialize! We also bind on the call to operator* to get the proper
39   // type in the diagnostic message. We use both cxxOperatorCallExpr for user
40   // defined operator and unaryOperator when the iterator is a pointer, like
41   // for arrays or std::array.
42   //
43   // Note that when the implicit conversion is done through a user defined
44   // conversion operator, the node is a CXXMemberCallExpr, not a
45   // CXXOperatorCallExpr, so it should not get caught by the
46   // cxxOperatorCallExpr() matcher.
47   Finder->addMatcher(
48       traverse(
49           TK_AsIs,
50           cxxForRangeStmt(hasLoopVariable(
51               varDecl(
52                   hasType(qualType(references(qualType(isConstQualified())))),
53                   hasInitializer(
54                       expr(anyOf(
55                                hasDescendant(
56                                    cxxOperatorCallExpr().bind("operator-call")),
57                                hasDescendant(unaryOperator(hasOperatorName("*"))
58                                                  .bind("operator-call"))))
59                           .bind("init")))
60                   .bind("faulty-var")))),
61       this);
62 }
63 
check(const MatchFinder::MatchResult & Result)64 void ImplicitConversionInLoopCheck::check(
65     const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
66   const auto *VD = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<VarDecl>("faulty-var");
67   const auto *Init = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<Expr>("init");
68   const auto *OperatorCall =
69       Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<Expr>("operator-call");
70 
71   if (const auto *Cleanup = dyn_cast<ExprWithCleanups>(Init))
72     Init = Cleanup->getSubExpr();
73 
74   const auto *Materialized = dyn_cast<MaterializeTemporaryExpr>(Init);
75   if (!Materialized)
76     return;
77 
78   // We ignore NoOp casts. Those are generated if the * operator on the
79   // iterator returns a value instead of a reference, and the loop variable
80   // is a reference. This situation is fine (it probably produces the same
81   // code at the end).
82   if (isNonTrivialImplicitCast(Materialized->getSubExpr()))
83     reportAndFix(Result.Context, VD, OperatorCall);
84 }
85 
reportAndFix(const ASTContext * Context,const VarDecl * VD,const Expr * OperatorCall)86 void ImplicitConversionInLoopCheck::reportAndFix(const ASTContext *Context,
87                                                  const VarDecl *VD,
88                                                  const Expr *OperatorCall) {
89   // We only match on const ref, so we should print a const ref version of the
90   // type.
91   QualType ConstType = OperatorCall->getType().withConst();
92   QualType ConstRefType = Context->getLValueReferenceType(ConstType);
93   const char Message[] =
94       "the type of the loop variable %0 is different from the one returned "
95       "by the iterator and generates an implicit conversion; you can either "
96       "change the type to the matching one (%1 but 'const auto&' is always a "
97       "valid option) or remove the reference to make it explicit that you are "
98       "creating a new value";
99   diag(VD->getBeginLoc(), Message) << VD << ConstRefType;
100 }
101 
102 } // namespace clang::tidy::performance
103