[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Added Conflicting Global Accesses checker (PR #130421)
Baranov Victor via cfe-commits
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Jun 1 07:43:40 PDT 2025
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+.. title:: clang-tidy - bugprone-conflicting-global-accesses
+
+bugprone-conflicting-global-accesses
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+
+Finds conflicting accesses on global variables.
+
+Modifying twice or reading and modifying a memory location without a
+defined sequence of the operations is either undefined behavior or has
+unspecified order. This checker is similar to the -Wunsequenced clang warning,
+however it only looks at global variables and therefore can find conflicting
+actions recursively inside functions as well.
+
+For example::
+
+ int a = 0;
+ int b = (a++) - a; // This is flagged by -Wunsequenced.
+
+However global variables allow for more complex scenarios that
+-Wunsequenced doesn't detect. E.g. ::
+
+ int globalVar = 0;
+
+ int incFun() {
+ globalVar++;
+ return globalVar;
+ }
+
+ int main() {
+ return globalVar + incFun(); // This is not detected by -Wunsequenced.
+ }
+
+This checker attempts to detect such cases. It recurses into functions that are
+inside the same translation unit. It also attempts not to flag cases that are
+already covered by -Wunsequenced. Global unions and structs are also handled.
+For example::
+
+ typedef struct {
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vbvictor wrote:
ditto code-block
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/130421
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