r179659 - [analyzer] Merge C++ status page into Open Projects.

Jordan Rose jordan_rose at apple.com
Tue Apr 16 17:57:39 PDT 2013


Author: jrose
Date: Tue Apr 16 19:57:39 2013
New Revision: 179659

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=179659&view=rev
Log:
[analyzer] Merge C++ status page into Open Projects.

Also, add a few random extra open projects.

Most of C++ support is done; we don't need the status page anymore. We're
hoping that the C++-related open projects are the only major pieces of
functionality we don't model at this point.

Removed:
    cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/dev_cxx.html
Modified:
    cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/menu.html.incl
    cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/open_projects.html

Removed: cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/dev_cxx.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/dev_cxx.html?rev=179658&view=auto
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/dev_cxx.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/dev_cxx.html (removed)
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
-          "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
-<html>
-<head>
-  <title>Analyzer Development: C++ Support</title>
-  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="menu.css">
-  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="content.css">
-  <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/menu.js"></script>  
-</head>
-<body>
-
-<div id="page">
-<!--#include virtual="menu.html.incl"-->
-<div id="content">
-
-<h1>C++ Support</h1>
-
-<p>The Clang compiler <a
-href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">supports almost all of C++11</a>.
-Support in the frontend for C++ language features, however, does not
-automatically translate into support for those features in the static analyzer.
-Language features need to be specifically modeled in the static analyzer so
-their semantics can be properly analyzed. Support for analyzing C++ and
-Objective-C++ files is currently fairly basic.</p>
-
-<p>Listed here are a set of open tasks that are prerequisites for
-decent analysis of C++.  This list is also not complete; new tasks
-will be added as deemed necessary.</p>
-
-<ul>
-  <li>Control-Flow Graph Enhancements:
-  <ul>
-    <li>Model destructors for temporary objects</li>
-    <li>Model the implicit allocator call to <tt>operator new</tt></li>
-  </ul>
-  </li>
-  <li>Path-Sensitive Analysis Engine (ExprEngine):
-  <ul>
-    <li>Allow constructors to be inlined</li>
-    <li>Allow destructors to be inlined</li>
-    <li>Fully model <tt>new</tt> and <tt>delete</tt></li>
-    <li>Track type info through casts more precisely</li>
-  </ul>
-  </li>
-  <li>Checkers:
-  <ul>
-    <li>Check that <tt>new</tt> and <tt>delete</tt> are correctly paired</li>
-    <li>For more ideas, see the <a href="potential_checkers.html">list of potential checkers</a></li>
-  </ul>
-  </li>
-</ul>
-
-</div>
-</div>
-</body>
-</html>
-

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/menu.html.incl
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/menu.html.incl?rev=179659&r1=179658&r2=179659&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/menu.html.incl (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/menu.html.incl Tue Apr 16 19:57:39 2013
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
     <li><a href="/checker_dev_manual.html">Checker Developer Manual</a></li>
     <li><a href="/open_projects.html">Open Projects</a></li>
     <li><a href="/potential_checkers.html">Potential Future Checkers</a></li>
-    <li><a href="/dev_cxx.html">Analysis Support for C++</a></li>
   </ul>
 </li>
 <li>

Modified: cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/open_projects.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/open_projects.html?rev=179659&r1=179658&r2=179659&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/open_projects.html (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/www/analyzer/open_projects.html Tue Apr 16 19:57:39 2013
@@ -53,7 +53,30 @@ mailing list</a> to notify other members
     control structures are poorly modeled (to be conservative). This could be
     much improved for both C++ and Objective-C exceptions.
     <i>(Difficulty: Medium)</i></p>    
-    
+
+    <li>Enhance CFG to model C++ <code>new</code> more precisely.
+    <p>The current representation of <code>new</code> does not provide an easy
+    way for the analyzer to model the call to a memory allocation function
+    (<code>operator new</code>), then initialize the result with a constructor
+    call. The problem is discussed at length in
+    <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12014">PR12014</a>.
+    <i>(Difficulty: Easy)</i></p>    
+
+    <li>Enhance CFG to model C++ <code>delete</code> more precisely.
+    <p>Similarly, the representation of <code>delete</code> does not include
+    the call to the destructor, followed by the call to the deallocation
+    function (<code>operator delete</code>). One particular issue 
+    (<tt>noreturn</tt> destructors) is discussed in
+    <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15599">PR15599</a>
+    <i>(Difficulty: Easy)</i></p>    
+
+    <li>Track type info through casts more precisely.
+    <p>The DynamicTypePropagation checker is in charge of inferring a region's
+    dynamic type based on what operations the code is performing. Casts are a
+    rich source of type information that the analyzer currently ignores. They
+    are tricky to get right, but might have very useful consequences.
+    <i>(Difficulty: Medium)</i></p>    
+
     <li>Design and implement alpha-renaming.
     <p>Implement unifying two symbolic values along a path after they are 
     determined to be equal via comparison. This would allow us to reduce the 
@@ -93,6 +116,19 @@ mailing list</a> to notify other members
 
   <li>Other Infrastructure 
   <ul>
+    <li>Rewrite <tt>scan-build</tt> (in Python).
+    <p><i>(Difficulty: Easy)</i></p>
+    </li>
+
+    <li>Do a better job interposing on a compilation.
+    <p>Currently, <tt>scan-build</tt> just sets the <tt>CC</tt> and <tt>CXX</tt>
+    environment variables to its wrapper scripts, which then call into an
+    underlying platform compiler. This is problematic for any project that
+    doesn't exclusively use <tt>CC</tt> and <tt>CXX</tt> to control its
+    compilers.
+    <p><i>(Difficulty: Medium-Hard)</i></p>
+    </li>
+
     <li>Create an <tt>analyzer_annotate</tt> attribute for the analyzer 
     annotations.
     <p>We would like to put all analyzer attributes behind a fence so that we 
@@ -100,10 +136,6 @@ mailing list</a> to notify other members
     depend on them. Design and implement such a generic analyzer attribute in 
     the compiler. <i>(Difficulty: Medium)</i></p>
     </li>
-
-    <li>Rewrite <tt>scan-build</tt> (in Python).
-    <p><i>(Difficulty: Easy)</i></p>
-    </li>    
   </ul>
   </li>
 





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