[PATCH] D50211: [analyzer] Fix displayed checker name for InnerPointerChecker

[Umann Kristóf via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

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Bad news, this approach doesn't work too well, and here's why: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/master/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CheckerRegistry.cpp#L115

  void CheckerRegistry::initializeManager(CheckerManager &checkerMgr,
                                    SmallVectorImpl<CheckerOptInfo> &opts) const {
    // Sort checkers for efficient collection.
    llvm::sort(Checkers, checkerNameLT);
  
    // Collect checkers enabled by the options.
    CheckerInfoSet enabledCheckers;
    for (auto &i : opts)
      collectCheckers(Checkers, Packages, i, enabledCheckers);
  
    // Initialize the CheckerManager with all enabled checkers.
    for (const auto *i :enabledCheckers) {
      checkerMgr.setCurrentCheckName(CheckName(i->FullName));
      i->Initialize(checkerMgr);
    }
  }

Note that `Initialize` is a function pointer that points to `register##CHECKERNAME`, so a single registry function should only register one checker, because `setCurrentCheckName` is only called once, resulting in `MallocChecker`'s checker object receiving the `cpluscplus.InnetPointer` name. It's very not-obvious how to fix this gracefully :/ You could call `CheckerManager::setCurrentCheckName` within the registry function, but you have to supply a full name, which adds unnecessary maintenance cost (for example, if someone moves a checker out of alpha, or puts one back).

I found this bug while trying to fix checker options, and noticed that the `Optimistic` flag of `MallocChecker` is acquired as `cplusplus.InnerPointer:Optimistic`, instead of `unix.Malloc:Optimistic`. Let's keep this in for now, and I'll try to look for ways to express dependencies while avoiding this issue.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D50211