[PATCH] D66473: [analyzer] Removed some dead code in BugReporter and related files

[Artem Dergachev via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

NoQ accepted this revision.
NoQ added inline comments.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.


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Comment at: clang/include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/BugReporter/BugReporter.h:408
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-  enum Kind { BasicBRKind, PathSensitiveBRKind };
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gribozavr wrote:
> NoQ wrote:
> > Hey, i just added that! :D (well, renamed) (rC369320)
> > 
> > I believe we do want a separation between a {bug report, bug reporter} classes that's only suitable for path-insensitive reports (which would live in libAnalysis and we could handle them to clang-tidy while still being able to compile it without CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER) and all the path-sensitive report logic that is pretty huge but only Static Analyzer needs it. For that purpose we'd better leave this in. WDYT? See also D66460.
> > 
> > Should i ask on the mailing list whether you're willing to sacrifice building clang-tidy without CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER in order to transition to BugReporter? Cause i thought it was obvious that it's not a great idea, even if it causes me to do a bit of cleanup work on my end.
> > 
> > That said, i'm surprised that it's deadcode, i.e. that nobody ever dyn_casts bug reporters, even though we already have two bug reporter classes. Maybe we can indeed remove this facility.
> > I believe we do want a separation between a {bug report, bug reporter} classes [...]
> 
> Yes, the separation is nice.
> 
> > For that purpose we'd better leave this in.
> 
> `Kind` is only needed for dynamic casting between different bug reporters. I'm not sure that is useful in practice (case in point -- the `classof` is not used today), specifically because the client that produces diagnostics will need to work with a bug reporter of the correct kind. If a path-sensitive client is handed a pointer to the base class, `BugReporter`, would it try to `dyn_cast` it to the derived class?.. what if it fails?..
> 
> Basically, I don't understand why one would want dynamic casting for these classes. I totally agree with the separation though.
> 
> > Should i ask on the mailing list whether you're willing to sacrifice building clang-tidy without CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER in order to transition to BugReporter?
> 
> I personally don't mind CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER going away completely (I have a fast machine and use a build system with strong caching), however, there are other people who are a lot more sensitive to build time, and for whom it might be important.
> I personally don't mind CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER going away completely (I have a fast machine and use a build system with strong caching), however, there are other people who are a lot more sensitive to build time, and for whom it might be important.

I think for clang it's mostly about binary size; people occasionally want compact clangs.

> I'm not sure that is useful in practice (case in point -- the classof is not used today), specifically because the client that produces diagnostics will need to work with a bug reporter of the correct kind.

Yeah, i agree. I'll add it back if i ever need it.



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