[libcxx] [clang-tools-extra] [clang] [llvm] [libc++][hardening] Categorize assertions related to strict weak ordering (PR #77405)

Konstantin Varlamov via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 22 12:58:06 PST 2024


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@@ -283,9 +283,20 @@
 // - `_LIBCPP_ASSERT_COMPATIBLE_ALLOCATOR` -- checks any operations that exchange nodes between containers to make sure
 //   the containers have compatible allocators.
 //
+// - `_LIBCPP_ASSERT_ARGUMENT_WITHIN_DOMAIN` -- checks that the given argument is within the domain of valid arguments
+//   for the function. Violating this typically produces an incorrect result (e.g. the clamp algorithm returns the
+//   original value without clamping it due to incorrect functors) or puts an object into an invalid state (e.g.
+//   a string view where only a subset of elements is possible to access). This doesn't cause an immediate issue within
+//   the library but is always a logic bug and is likely to cause problems within user code.
+//   This is somewhat of a catch-all (or fallback) category -- it covers errors triggered by user input that don't have
+//   a more specific category defined (which is always preferable when available).
+//
 // - `_LIBCPP_ASSERT_PEDANTIC` -- checks prerequisites which are imposed by the Standard, but violating which happens to
 //   be benign in our implementation.
 //
+// - `_LIBCPP_ASSERT_INTRUSIVE` -- for assertions that perform intrusive and typically very expensive validations of
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var-const wrote:

Went with `_LIBCPP_ASSERT_SEMANTIC_REQUIREMENT` -- I think this captures the intention well and implies two important properties of the check (usually a heuristic and often expensive).

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/77405


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