[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] detect redundant uses of LLVM's cast, dyn_cast (PR #189274)
Yanzuo Liu via cfe-commits
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 2 09:52:14 PDT 2026
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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 "RedundantCastingCheck.h"
+#include "clang/AST/ASTTypeTraits.h"
+#include "clang/AST/Decl.h"
+#include "clang/AST/DeclCXX.h"
+#include "clang/AST/Expr.h"
+#include "clang/AST/ExprCXX.h"
+#include "clang/AST/NestedNameSpecifierBase.h"
+#include "clang/AST/ParentMapContext.h"
+#include "clang/AST/TemplateBase.h"
+#include "clang/AST/TypeBase.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h"
+#include "clang/Lex/Lexer.h"
+#include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
+
+using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
+
+namespace clang::tidy::llvm_check {
+
+namespace {
+AST_MATCHER(Expr, isMacroID) { return Node.getExprLoc().isMacroID(); }
+AST_MATCHER_P(OverloadExpr, hasAnyUnresolvedName, ArrayRef<StringRef>, Names) {
+ auto DeclName = Node.getName();
+ if (!DeclName.isIdentifier())
+ return false;
+ const IdentifierInfo *II = DeclName.getAsIdentifierInfo();
+ return llvm::any_of(Names, [II](StringRef Name) { return II->isStr(Name); });
+}
+} // namespace
+
+static constexpr StringRef FunctionNames[] = {
+ "cast", "cast_or_null", "cast_if_present",
+ "dyn_cast", "dyn_cast_or_null", "dyn_cast_if_present"};
+
+void RedundantCastingCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
+ auto IsInLLVMNamespace = hasDeclContext(
+ namespaceDecl(hasName("llvm"), hasDeclContext(translationUnitDecl())));
+ auto AnyCalleeName =
+ allOf(unless(isMacroID()), unless(cxxMemberCallExpr()),
+ callee(expr(ignoringImpCasts(
+ declRefExpr(
+ to(namedDecl(hasAnyName(FunctionNames), IsInLLVMNamespace)),
+ hasAnyTemplateArgumentLoc(anything()))
+ .bind("callee")))));
+ auto AnyCalleeNameInUninstantiatedTemplate =
+ allOf(unless(isMacroID()), unless(cxxMemberCallExpr()),
+ callee(expr(ignoringImpCasts(
+ unresolvedLookupExpr(hasAnyUnresolvedName(FunctionNames))
+ .bind("callee")))));
+ Finder->addMatcher(
+ callExpr(AnyCalleeName, optionally(hasParent(
+ callExpr(AnyCalleeName).bind("parent_cast"))))
+ .bind("call"),
+ this);
+ Finder->addMatcher(
+ callExpr(
+ AnyCalleeNameInUninstantiatedTemplate,
+ optionally(hasAncestor(
+ namespaceDecl(hasName("llvm"), hasParent(translationUnitDecl()))
+ .bind("llvm_ns"))))
+ .bind("call"),
+ this);
+}
+
+static QualType stripPointerOrReference(QualType Ty) {
+ QualType Pointee = Ty->getPointeeType();
+ if (Pointee.isNull())
+ return Ty;
+ return Pointee;
+}
+
+static bool isLLVMNamespace(NestedNameSpecifier NNS) {
+ if (NNS.getKind() != NestedNameSpecifier::Kind::Namespace)
+ return false;
+ auto Pair = NNS.getAsNamespaceAndPrefix();
+ if (Pair.Namespace->getNamespace()->getName() != "llvm")
+ return false;
+ const NestedNameSpecifier::Kind Kind = Pair.Prefix.getKind();
+ return Kind == NestedNameSpecifier::Kind::Null ||
+ Kind == NestedNameSpecifier::Kind::Global;
+}
+
+void RedundantCastingCheck::check(const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
+ const auto &Nodes = Result.Nodes;
+ const auto *Call = Nodes.getNodeAs<CallExpr>("call");
+ if (Call->getNumArgs() != 1)
+ return;
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zwuis wrote:
Use `argumentCountIs` matcher in `registerMatchers`.
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/189274
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