[clang] [analyzer] Introduce per-entry-point statistics (PR #131175)

Balazs Benics via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Mar 14 08:31:07 PDT 2025


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+Analysis Statistics
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+CSA enjoys two facilities to collect statistics: per translation unit and per entry point.
+We use llvm/ADT/Statistic.h for numbers describing the entire translation unit (TU).
+We use clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/PathSensitive/EntryPointStats.h to collect data for each symbolic-execution entry point.
+
+In many cases, it makes sense to collect statistics on both translation-unit level and entry-point level. You can use the two macros defined in EntryPointStats.h for that:
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+- ``STAT_COUNTER`` for additive statistics, for example, "the number of steps executed", "the number of functions inlined".
+- ``STAT_MAX`` for maximizing statistics, for example, "the maximum environment size", or "the longest execution path".
+
+If you want to define a statistic that makes sense only for the entire translation unit, for example, "the number of entry points", Statistic.h defines two macros: ``STATISTIC`` and ``ALLWAYS_ENABLED_STATISTIC``.
+You should prefer ``ALLWAYS_ENABLED_STATISTIC`` unless you have a good reason not to.
+``STATISTIC`` is controlled by ``LLVM_ENABLE_STATS`` / ``LLVM_FORCE_ENABLE_STATS``.
+However, note that with ``LLVM_ENABLE_STATS`` disabled, only storage of the values is disabled, the computations producing those values still carry on unless you took an explicit precaution to make them conditional too.
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steakhal wrote:

```suggestion
If you want to define a statistic that makes sense only for the entire translation unit, for example, "the number of entry points", Statistic.h defines two macros: ``STATISTIC`` and ``ALWAYS_ENABLED_STATISTIC``.
You should prefer ``ALWAYS_ENABLED_STATISTIC`` unless you have a good reason not to.
``STATISTIC`` is controlled by ``LLVM_ENABLE_STATS`` / ``LLVM_FORCE_ENABLE_STATS``.
However, note that with ``LLVM_ENABLE_STATS`` disabled, only storage of the values is disabled, the computations producing those values still carry on unless you took an explicit precaution to make them conditional too.
```

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/131175


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