[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Fix `cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init` check (PR #169832)
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https://github.com/zeyi2 updated https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/169832
>From f41310dcb601075d980c4d7163d8db1d5dee7913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mtx <mitchell.xu2 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:50:47 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [clang-tidy] Fix `cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init`
check
---
.../ProTypeMemberInitCheck.cpp | 32 +++++++++++++++--
clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 5 +++
.../pro-type-member-init.ignorearrays.cpp | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/cppcoreguidelines/ProTypeMemberInitCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/cppcoreguidelines/ProTypeMemberInitCheck.cpp
index 66508da89f0dd..f8c096b4b4c66 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/cppcoreguidelines/ProTypeMemberInitCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/cppcoreguidelines/ProTypeMemberInitCheck.cpp
@@ -361,7 +361,8 @@ void ProTypeMemberInitCheck::storeOptions(ClangTidyOptions::OptionMap &Opts) {
}
// FIXME: Copied from clang/lib/Sema/SemaDeclCXX.cpp.
-static bool isIncompleteOrZeroLengthArrayType(ASTContext &Context, QualType T) {
+static bool isIncompleteOrZeroLengthArrayType(const ASTContext &Context,
+ QualType T) {
if (T->isIncompleteArrayType())
return true;
@@ -375,7 +376,7 @@ static bool isIncompleteOrZeroLengthArrayType(ASTContext &Context, QualType T) {
return false;
}
-static bool isEmpty(ASTContext &Context, const QualType &Type) {
+static bool isEmpty(const ASTContext &Context, const QualType &Type) {
if (const CXXRecordDecl *ClassDecl = Type->getAsCXXRecordDecl()) {
return ClassDecl->isEmpty();
}
@@ -582,6 +583,33 @@ void ProTypeMemberInitCheck::checkMissingBaseClassInitializer(
void ProTypeMemberInitCheck::checkUninitializedTrivialType(
const ASTContext &Context, const VarDecl *Var) {
+ // Verify that the record actually needs initialization
+ const CXXRecordDecl *Record = Var->getType()->getAsCXXRecordDecl();
+ if (!Record)
+ return;
+
+ SmallPtrSet<const FieldDecl *, 16> FieldsToInit;
+ bool AnyMemberHasInitPerUnion = false;
+ forEachFieldWithFilter(
+ *Record, Record->fields(), AnyMemberHasInitPerUnion,
+ [&](const FieldDecl *F) {
+ if (IgnoreArrays && F->getType()->isArrayType())
+ return;
+ if (F->hasInClassInitializer() && F->getParent()->isUnion()) {
+ AnyMemberHasInitPerUnion = true;
+ removeFieldInitialized(F, FieldsToInit);
+ }
+ if (!F->hasInClassInitializer() &&
+ utils::type_traits::isTriviallyDefaultConstructible(F->getType(),
+ Context) &&
+ !isEmpty(Context, F->getType()) && !F->isUnnamedBitField() &&
+ !AnyMemberHasInitPerUnion)
+ FieldsToInit.insert(F);
+ });
+
+ if (FieldsToInit.empty())
+ return;
+
const DiagnosticBuilder Diag =
diag(Var->getBeginLoc(), "uninitialized record type: %0") << Var;
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index a6f80e3721db1..3ad2ffc07da5c 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -424,6 +424,11 @@ Changes in existing checks
adding an option to allow pointer arithmetic via prefix/postfix increment or
decrement operators.
+- Improved :doc:`cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init
+ <clang-tidy/checks/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init>` check to
+ correctly ignore ``std::array`` and other containers when ``IgnoreArrays``
+ option is set to ``true``.
+
- Improved :doc:`google-readability-casting
<clang-tidy/checks/google/readability-casting>` check by adding fix-it
notes for downcasts and casts to void pointer.
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init.ignorearrays.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init.ignorearrays.cpp
index 01859b3ad98f4..e4cfe679cfce9 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init.ignorearrays.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init.ignorearrays.cpp
@@ -14,3 +14,39 @@ struct HasArrayMember {
int RawArray[4];
int Number;
};
+
+namespace std {
+template <typename T, int N>
+struct array {
+ T _Elems[N];
+ void fill(const T &);
+};
+}
+
+void test_local_std_array() {
+ std::array<int, 4> a;
+}
+
+struct OnlyArray {
+ int a[4];
+};
+
+void test_local_only_array() {
+ OnlyArray a;
+}
+
+struct Mixed {
+ int a[4];
+ int b;
+};
+
+void test_local_mixed() {
+ Mixed m;
+ // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:3: warning: uninitialized record type: 'm'
+}
+
+void test_std_array_fill() {
+ std::array<char, 10> someArray;
+ // CHECK-MESSAGES-NOT: warning: uninitialized record type: 'someArray'
+ someArray.fill('n');
+}
>From 29f44eb8f8ff90eac085670c0ee9b4c07a589717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mitchell <mitchell.xu2 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 13:33:37 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Co-authored-by: EugeneZelenko <eugene.zelenko at gmail.com>
---
clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 3ad2ffc07da5c..edb2a98446eba 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -426,8 +426,8 @@ Changes in existing checks
- Improved :doc:`cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-member-init
<clang-tidy/checks/cppcoreguidelines/pro-type-member-init>` check to
- correctly ignore ``std::array`` and other containers when ``IgnoreArrays``
- option is set to ``true``.
+ correctly ignore ``std::array`` and other containers when `IgnoreArrays`
+ option is set to `true`.
- Improved :doc:`google-readability-casting
<clang-tidy/checks/google/readability-casting>` check by adding fix-it
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