[cfe-commits] r96985 - in /cfe/trunk: lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp test/Analysis/dead-stores.m

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Tue Feb 23 13:19:33 PST 2010


Author: kremenek
Date: Tue Feb 23 15:19:33 2010
New Revision: 96985

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=96985&view=rev
Log:
Dead emit dead store warnings when assigning nil to an ObjC object
pointer (for defensive programming).  This matches the behavior with
assigning NULL to a regular pointer.  Fixes <rdar://problem/7631278>.

Modified:
    cfe/trunk/lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp
    cfe/trunk/test/Analysis/dead-stores.m

Modified: cfe/trunk/lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp?rev=96985&r1=96984&r2=96985&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/lib/Checker/CheckDeadStores.cpp Tue Feb 23 15:19:33 2010
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@
         if (VarDecl *VD = dyn_cast<VarDecl>(DR->getDecl())) {
           // Special case: check for assigning null to a pointer.
           //  This is a common form of defensive programming.
-          if (VD->getType()->isPointerType()) {
+          QualType T = VD->getType();
+          if (T->isPointerType() || T->isObjCObjectPointerType()) {
             if (B->getRHS()->isNullPointerConstant(Ctx,
                                               Expr::NPC_ValueDependentIsNull))
               return;

Modified: cfe/trunk/test/Analysis/dead-stores.m
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/cfe/trunk/test/Analysis/dead-stores.m?rev=96985&r1=96984&r2=96985&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- cfe/trunk/test/Analysis/dead-stores.m (original)
+++ cfe/trunk/test/Analysis/dead-stores.m Tue Feb 23 15:19:33 2010
@@ -34,3 +34,10 @@
       ([keys containsObject:@"name"] && [keys containsObject:@"icon"])) {}
 }
 
+// This test case was a false positive due to how clang models
+// pointer types and ObjC object pointer types differently.  Here
+// we don't warn about a dead store because 'nil' is assigned to
+// an object pointer for the sake of defensive programming.
+void rdar_7631278(NSObject *x) {
+  x = ((void*)0);
+}





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