Add warning for c++ member variable shadowing

James Sun via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 30 20:34:09 PST 2017


Hi Saleem

Thanks for the quick response. A test case is added. It covers some ordinary cases as well as corner cases like multiple paths to the same base.

Thanks

James

From: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org>
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:50 PM
To: James Sun <jamessun at fb.com>
Cc: Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk>, "cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org" <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
Subject: Re: Add warning for c++ member variable shadowing

I think that the patch is starting to look pretty good!

Can you add some test cases for the particular cases to diagnose in a separate test set to ensure that we have proper coverage of the various cases rather than relying on the existing test cases?  Something to make sure that we get the simple case right as well as the complex cases (e.g. we don't print duplicate warnings for multiple paths).


On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:50 PM, James Sun <jamessun at fb.com<mailto:jamessun at fb.com>> wrote:
Hi Richard

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for giving the feedback! The updated version is attached. Please let me know if there is anything improper.

Thanks

James

From: <metafoo at gmail.com<mailto:metafoo at gmail.com>> on behalf of Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk<mailto:richard at metafoo.co.uk>>
Date: Friday, January 27, 2017 at 3:03 PM
To: James Sun <jamessun at fb.com<mailto:jamessun at fb.com>>
Cc: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org<mailto:compnerd at compnerd.org>>, "cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>" <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>>, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com<mailto:aaron at aaronballman.com>>

Subject: Re: Add warning for c++ member variable shadowing

+def warn_shadow_member_variable : Warning<
+  "shadowed variable '%0' in type '%1' inheriting from type '%2'">,

The phrasing of this is incorrect: the things you're warning about are not variables, they're non-static data members. Perhaps something like:

  "non-static data member '%0' of '%1' shadows member inherited from type '%2'"

+   InGroup<Shadow>;

Would it make sense to put this in a subgroup of -Wshadow so that it can be controlled separately?

+  /// Check if there is a member variable shadowing

Please end comments in a period.

+  void CheckShadowInheritedVariables(const SourceLocation &Loc,

Likewise, 'Variables' is wrong. We would typically use the C term 'Fields' for these cases within Clang sources.

+  for (const auto &Base : DC->bases()) {
+    if (const auto *TSI = Base.getTypeSourceInfo())
+      if (const auto *BaseClass = TSI->getType()->getAsCXXRecordDecl()) {
+        for (const auto *Field : BaseClass->fields())
+          if (Field->getName() == FieldName)
+            Diag(Loc, diag::warn_shadow_member_variable)
+              << FieldName << RD->getName() << BaseClass->getName();
+        // Search parent's parents
+        CheckShadowInheritedVariables(Loc, FieldName, RD, BaseClass);
+      }
+  }

Maybe we should avoid diagnosing shadowing of members that are inaccessible from the derived class? What about if the field name is ambiguous? Also, we shouldn't recurse if lookup finds something with the given name in this class, and ideally we would only visit each class once, even if it appears multiple times in a multiple-inheritance scenario. CXXRecordDecl::lookupInBases can handle most of these cases for you automatically, and will also let you build a set of paths to problematic base classes in case you want to report those.

On 24 January 2017 at 20:52, James Sun <jamessun at fb.com<mailto:jamessun at fb.com>> wrote:
Thanks for the comments. The new version is attached.
Wrt two of your questions:

(1)  “The description that you have on CheckShadowInheritedVariables isn't really the type of comments that we have in doxygen form.  Im not sure if its in line with the rest of the code.”
I’ve read through the doxygen wiki; hopefully it’s fixed; let me know if it’s still wrong

(2) “Why are you checking that the DeclContext has a definition rather than the record itself?”
There are cases like “struct A; struct B : A {};”, where A does not have a definition. The compiler will hit an assertion failure if we call A.bases() directly.

Thanks

James


From: Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd at compnerd.org<mailto:compnerd at compnerd.org>>
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 7:10 PM
To: James Sun <jamessun at fb.com<mailto:jamessun at fb.com>>
Cc: "cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>" <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>>, Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com<mailto:aaron at aaronballman.com>>, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk<mailto:richard at metafoo.co.uk>>
Subject: Re: Add warning for c++ member variable shadowing

Some more stylistic comments:

The description that you have on CheckShadowInheritedVariables isn't really the type of comments that we have in doxygen form.  Im not sure if its in line with the rest of the code.

The ignore warning comments are restating what is in the code, please remove them.

Could you make the header and the source file match the name?

Why are you checking that the DeclContext has a definition rather than the record itself?

Space after the <<.

Don't use the cast for the check, use isa.  Although, since you use the value later, it is probably better to write this as:

    if (const auto *RD = cast<CXXRecordDecl>(CurContext))
      CheckShadowInheritedVariabless(Loc, Name.getAsString(), RD, RD);



On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:06 PM, James Sun via cfe-commits <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
Coding style change

From: James Sun <jamessun at fb.com<mailto:jamessun at fb.com>>
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 2:36 PM
To: "cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>" <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org<mailto:cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org>>
Subject: Add warning for c++ member variable shadowing

Dear members

Here is a patch (attached) to create warnings where a member variable shadows the one in one of its inheriting classes. For cases where we really don't want to shadow member variables, e.g.

class a {
  int foo;
}

class b : a {
  int foo; // Generate a warning
}

This patch
(1) adds a member variable shadowing checking, and
(2) incorporates it to the unit tests.


Comments are welcome.

Thanks

James

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