[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Create bugprone-bit-cast-pointers check (PR #108083)

[Julian Schmidt via cfe-commits]

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+//===--- BitCastPointersCheck.h - clang-tidy --------------------*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_BUGPRONE_BITCASTPOINTERSCHECK_H
+#define LLVM_CLANG_TOOLS_EXTRA_CLANG_TIDY_BUGPRONE_BITCASTPOINTERSCHECK_H
+
+#include "../ClangTidyCheck.h"
+
+namespace clang::tidy::bugprone {
+
+/// Warns about usage of ``std::bit_cast`` when the input and output types are
+/// pointers.
+///
+/// For the user-facing documentation see:
+/// http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/bit-cast-pointers.html
+class BitCastPointersCheck : public ClangTidyCheck {
+public:
+  BitCastPointersCheck(StringRef Name, ClangTidyContext *Context)
+      : ClangTidyCheck(Name, Context) {}
+  void registerMatchers(ast_matchers::MatchFinder *Finder) override;
+  void check(const ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) override;
+  bool isLanguageVersionSupported(const LangOptions &LangOpts) const override {
+    return LangOpts.CPlusPlus20;
+  }
+};
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5chmidti wrote:

You could change the traversal kind as well.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/108083