[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Add check performance-lost-std-move (PR #139525)

Vasiliy Kulikov via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 2 03:52:19 PDT 2025


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+.. title:: clang-tidy - performance-lost-std-move
+
+performance-lost-std-move
+=========================
+
+Warns if copy constructor is used instead of ``std::move()`` and suggests a fix.
+It honours cycles, lambdas, and unspecified call order in compound expressions.
+
+.. code-block:: c++
+
+   void f(X);
+
+   void g(X x) {
+     f(x);  // warning: Could be std::move() [performance-lost-std-move]
+   }
+
+It finds the last local variable usage, and if it is a copy, emits a warning.
+The check is based on pure AST matching and doesn't take into account any
+data flow information. Thus, it doesn't catch assign-after-copy cases.
+
+Also it does notice variable references "behind the scenes":
+
+.. code-block:: c++
+
+   void f(X);
+
+   void g(X x) {
+     auto &y = x;
+     f(x);  // does not emit a warning
+     y.f();  // because x is still used via y
+   }
+
+If you want to ignore assigns to reference variables, set :option: `StrictMode`
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segoon wrote:

thanks! sorry for so many small typos :(

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/139525


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