[clang] [clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Add readability-avoid-default-lambda-capture (PR #160150)

Baranov Victor via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 9 11:55:30 PDT 2025


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+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+//
+// 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
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#include "AvoidDefaultLambdaCaptureCheck.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
+#include "clang/Basic/Lambda.h"
+#include "clang/Lex/Lexer.h"
+
+using namespace clang::tidy::readability;
+
+static std::string generateCaptureText(const clang::LambdaCapture &Capture) {
+  if (Capture.capturesThis()) {
+    return Capture.getCaptureKind() == clang::LCK_StarThis ? "*this" : "this";
+  }
+
+  std::string Result;
+  if (Capture.getCaptureKind() == clang::LCK_ByRef) {
+    Result += "&";
+  }
+  Result += Capture.getCapturedVar()->getName().str();
+  return Result;
+}
+
+void AvoidDefaultLambdaCaptureCheck::registerMatchers(
+    clang::ast_matchers::MatchFinder *Finder) {
+  Finder->addMatcher(
+      clang::ast_matchers::lambdaExpr(clang::ast_matchers::hasDefaultCapture())
+          .bind("lambda"),
+      this);
+}
+
+void AvoidDefaultLambdaCaptureCheck::check(
+    const clang::ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
+  const auto *Lambda = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::LambdaExpr>("lambda");
+  assert(Lambda);
+
+  const clang::SourceLocation DefaultCaptureLoc =
+      Lambda->getCaptureDefaultLoc();
+  if (DefaultCaptureLoc.isInvalid())
+    return;
+
+  std::vector<std::string> ImplicitCaptures;
+  for (const auto &Capture : Lambda->implicit_captures()) {
+    // It is impossible to explicitly capture a VLA in C++, since VLAs don't
+    // exist in ISO C++ and so the syntax was never created to capture them.
+    if (Capture.getCaptureKind() == LCK_VLAType)
+      return;
+    ImplicitCaptures.push_back(generateCaptureText(Capture));
+  }
+
+  auto Diag = diag(DefaultCaptureLoc,
+                   "lambda default captures are discouraged; "
+                   "prefer to capture specific variables explicitly");
+
+  // For template-dependent lambdas, the list of captures hasn't been created
+  // yet, so the list of implicit captures is empty.
+  if (ImplicitCaptures.empty() && Lambda->isGenericLambda())
+    return;
+
+  const auto ReplacementText = [&ImplicitCaptures]() {
+    return llvm::join(ImplicitCaptures, ", ");
+  }();
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vbvictor wrote:

Why do we need lambda?
Could we just
```suggestion
  const /*PlaceRealTypePlease*/ ReplacementText = llvm::join(ImplicitCaptures, ", ");
```


https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/160150


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