[PATCH] D157554: [NFC][Clang] Fix static analyzer concern about null pointer dereference

Aaron Ballman via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Aug 10 10:22:17 PDT 2023


aaron.ballman added a comment.

In D157554#4576720 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D157554#4576720>, @eandrews wrote:

> In D157554#4576478 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D157554#4576478>, @aaron.ballman wrote:
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>> This feels a bit more like a functional change than a non-functional change because it seems like we should be able to test this case (whereas, if we think `TC` can never be null in reality, we could add an `assert` for it and not add test coverage). That said, I'm not certain how to induce a failure here. Adding @erichkeane in case he has ideas.
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> Yea I agree. I see that this is inside `ReturnTypeRequirement.isTypeConstraint()` so maybe `Param` should always have a type constraint? I'm just naively guessing here though

As I read the code, I think an assert is sufficient -- if the param is a type constraint, I believe we expect a non-null type constraint and a null one is a sign of a bug.


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