[PATCH] D96203: [clang][patch] Modify sanitizer options names: renaming blacklist to blocklist

Mon Feb 8 06:39:54 PST 2021

aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D96203#2548471 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96203#2548471>, @mibintc wrote:

> In D96203#2546856 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D96203#2546856>, @aaron.ballman wrote:
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>> Thank you for working on this!
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>>> This changes the option names that include substring blacklist to blocklist.
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>> I think this change works in some places, but in other places we say things like "blocklisted" which feels a bit awkward. I don't super love the name `blocklist`, but I don't super hate it either. All the alternative names I come up with aren't really great either, like `UnsanitiziedEntities` or `IgnoredObjects`. Maybe someone will have a better idea here than me, but I do think the current name is an improvement over the old name.
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> There is a pre-existing patch https://reviews.llvm.org/D82244 using block and allow, that's why I chose blocklist. Although going in cold I would prefer to use allow and deny, and block seems to me a little like cheating (too similar to black).

That was my concern as well -- I can easily imagine someone seeing "blocklisted" and thinking it was a typo for "blacklisted" and undoing the change to comments with an NFC change.

> However I can "disagree and commit" (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disagree_and_commit) with this choice of wording. I can search out the awkward Blocklisted and come up with different phrasing in the prose, but I think names in the program should use blocklist so that they can be easily connected to the option name for future maintainers of llvm.  I'll check this.

I agree that the frontend option names and the internal variable names need to connect to one another, so if we pick a new term, it should be used consistently. I'd be mildly happier with a better term than blocklist, but I can live with that name too.

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