[clang-tools-extra] Add bugprone-loop-variable-copied-then-modified clang-tidy check. (PR #157213)

Nicolas van Kempen via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Sep 9 20:03:17 PDT 2025


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+.. title:: clang-tidy - bugprone-loop-variable-copied-then-modified
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+bugprone-loop-variable-copied-then-modified
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+Detects when a loop variable is copied and then subsequently modified and
+suggests replacing with a ``const`` reference or an explicit copy.
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+This pattern is considered bugprone because, frequently, programmers do not
+realize that they are modifying a *copy* rather than an underlying value,
+resulting in subtly erroneous code.
+
+For instance, the following code attempts to null out a value in a map, but only
+succeeds in 
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nicovank wrote:

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/157213


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