<div dir="ltr"><br><div>The consumed analysis tracks three states: "consumed", "unconsumed", and "unknown". If an object is only consumed on one branch, then it would wind up in the "unknown" state afterward. </div><div><br></div><div>You can specify which operations are permitted in which states. For a strict analysis, you can say "warn whenever a unique_ptr is dereferenced in any state other than unconsumed." A less strict version might say "only warn on dereference if it's in the consumed state." The less strict version will have a higher false negative rate, but a much lower false positive rate, especially for a widely-used type like unique_ptr.</div><div><br></div><div>That's where things get tricky, because the C++ standard says that std::move must leave the object in a valid state. Some people rely on that behavior in their code, and routinely use null unique_ptrs, whereas some other people don't. So for a widely-used type, it's difficult to come up with a set of annotations that works for everyone. It's much easier if you're willing to create a strict_unique_ptr class (or something similar), that absolutely does not allow use-after-move.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, the consumed analysis works, but hasn't been widely deployed, due to the false positives issue. Expect to see some bugs.</div><div><br></div><div> -DeLesley</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:19 AM, David Blaikie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dblaikie@gmail.com" target="_blank">dblaikie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:00 AM, David Chisnall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Chisnall@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">David.Chisnall@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 6 Oct 2014, at 21:39, David Blaikie <<a href="mailto:dblaikie@gmail.com" target="_blank">dblaikie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I doubt it's reliable enough to warn on that generally - the user might've wanted to return an empty value in that situation. (think of the case where T is std::unique_ptr, with a well defined move-from state that users might rely on).<br>
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</span>I think that the number of times that I've used that pattern is a tiny handful of the times where I've used std::move, so perhaps an attribute to flag that 'yes, I really meant to return this value even though it's now empty' is the way forward?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Perhaps - I'm just suggesting some of the gotchas I'd want to keep an eye out for when evaluating the quality of such a warning. Numbers trump everything - if someone implements it, surveys a large codebase, and finds few enough false positives (with reasonable ways to rewrite them to not trigger the warning) - that's success.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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