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    Hi Mehdi,<br class="">
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    thanks a lot for your email. Actually I was disappointed by the fact
    that I was not able to get a useful answer to my two questions.<br class="">
    As I observed that the questions move down along the list with time
    passing I decided to re-post them in the hope that the questions <br class="">
    will have a better visibility.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I don’t think we have a guideline on this, but reposting more than once a week seems too much.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">
    
    Could you help me with the two questions? Finding an expert in this
    area would be of great help. Do you think the questions are not well
    stated.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>As mentioned in my previous email, you got two answers to your previous questions that went apparently ignored. A good starting point would be to iterate from there. Reposting the same question means that someone may spend time answering the same thing as the answer you already got because your repost does not maintain the threading / history of the discussion.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— </div><div>Mehdi</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">
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    Regards<br class="">
      Paul<br class="">
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          the 4th time in two weeks that you repost the exact same two
          emails, that’s a bit high repost rate for the mailing-list,
          especially considering that you already got answers that you
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              <div class="">On Dec 21, 2016, at 2:47 AM, Paul Muntean
                via llvm-dev <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>>
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                <div class="">I want to detect bad casts in C++ code by
                  using the Clang<br class="">
                  compiler. The approach is similar to what Caver and
                  TypeSan do but<br class="">
                  without using the compiler-rt.<br class="">
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                  Caver and TypeSan:<br class="">
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-lee.pdf" class="">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-lee.pdf</a><br class="">
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/16CCS2.pdf">https://nebelwelt.net/publications/files/16CCS2.pdf</a><br class="">
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                  For example if I have the following C++ code snippet
                  where I want to<br class="">
                  cast object b into<br class="">
                  object D.<br class="">
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                  D* obj = static_cast<D*>(b);<br class="">
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                  from where (inside Clang, LTO, thinLTO, etc.) can I
                  get the base class<br class="">
                  of D and the base class ob b. Is this<br class="">
                  available in the Clang compiler or LTO?<br class="">
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                  Also, if b is an object of a virtual Class (class with
                  inherited or its<br class="">
                  own virtual functions) can I get its virtual pointer
                  at compile time<br class="">
                  by using the LTO?<br class="">
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                  I found out that in CodeGen/CGExpr.cpp the explicit
                  case "BaseToDerived" is<br class="">
                  handled and you can retrieve TypeSourceInfo using the
                  function<br class="">
                  getTypeInfoAsWritten(). It seems that this information
                  is enough to get<br class="">
                  the exact type of this cast at compile-time and should
                  also work for<br class="">
                  Template programming, as my, understanding is that
                  Clang should have<br class="">
                  abstracted the code into, specific types at this
                  point.<br class="">
                  <br class="">
                  Am I wrong here?<br class="">
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                  Is there any case where the type of the objects used
                  inside the cast<br class="">
                  not known at compile time? Can the,<br class="">
                  'real' type be hidden behind a pointer?<br class="">
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Paul Muntean
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Institut für Informatik TU-München
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