[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Add readability-use-rethrow check (PR #190580)
Victor Chernyakin via cfe-commits
cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Apr 8 13:30:40 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 "UseRethrowCheck.h"
+#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
+
+using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
+
+namespace clang::tidy::readability {
+
+void UseRethrowCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
+ auto CatchVar = varDecl(isExceptionVariable(), hasType(referenceType()));
+ auto RefToVar = declRefExpr(to(CatchVar));
+
+ Finder->addMatcher(
+ cxxThrowExpr(has(expr(anyOf(
+ ignoringParenImpCasts(RefToVar),
+ cxxConstructExpr(
+ hasDeclaration(cxxConstructorDecl(anyOf(
+ isCopyConstructor(), isMoveConstructor()))),
+ hasArgument(0, ignoringParenImpCasts(RefToVar)))))))
+ .bind("throw"),
+ this);
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localspook wrote:
Because this code doesn't verify that the rethrown exception variable is the currently active exception, it looks like it gives a false positive in this snippet?
```cpp
try {
...
} catch (const std::exception outer) {
try {
...
} catch (const std::exception& inner) {
throw outer; // FP?
}
}
```
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/190580
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