[clang-tools-extra] [clang-tidy] Fix a false positive when converting a bool to a signed integer type (PR #191696)

Mao Chuanjun via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Apr 12 02:38:16 PDT 2026


https://github.com/maochuanjun created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/191696

Fix #191337

>From 2648ba4ff60476ed96fd9c6dcd0f88c7793287ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maochuanjun <10255501521 at stu.ecnu.edu.cn>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:20:50 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [clang-tidy] Fix a false positive when converting a bool to a
 signed integer type

---
 .../clang-tidy/bugprone/NarrowingConversionsCheck.cpp     | 3 +++
 clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst                   | 4 ++++
 .../checkers/bugprone/narrowing-conversions.cpp           | 8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NarrowingConversionsCheck.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NarrowingConversionsCheck.cpp
index f0a0f6c9b3106..58119078f89ab 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NarrowingConversionsCheck.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/bugprone/NarrowingConversionsCheck.cpp
@@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ void NarrowingConversionsCheck::handleIntegralCast(const ASTContext &Context,
       return;
     const BuiltinType *FromType = getBuiltinType(Rhs);
 
+    if (FromType->getKind() == BuiltinType::Bool)
+      return;
+
     // With this option, we don't warn on conversions that have equivalent width
     // in bits. eg. uint32 <-> int32.
     if (!WarnOnEquivalentBitWidth) {
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index d51cbc07c0b6d..6979c2cbcfff2 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -262,6 +262,10 @@ Changes in existing checks
   <clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/macro-parentheses>` check by printing the macro
   definition in the warning message if the macro is defined on command line.
 
+- Improved :doc:`bugprone-narrowing-conversions
+  <clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/narrowing-conversions>` check by fixing a false
+  positive when converting a ``bool`` to a signed integer type.
+
 - Improved :doc:`bugprone-pointer-arithmetic-on-polymorphic-object
   <clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/pointer-arithmetic-on-polymorphic-object>` check
   by fixing a false positive when ``operator[]`` is used in a dependent context.
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/narrowing-conversions.cpp b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/narrowing-conversions.cpp
index 39875264bd1e6..fb7a268625840 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/narrowing-conversions.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/test/clang-tidy/checkers/bugprone/narrowing-conversions.cpp
@@ -355,4 +355,12 @@ void typedef_context() {
   // CHECK-MESSAGES: :[[@LINE-1]]:7: warning: narrowing conversion from 'myint64_t' (aka 'long long') to signed type 'int' is implementation-defined [bugprone-narrowing-conversions]
 }
 
+void testBoolToSignedType() {
+  bool b = true;
+  auto c = char{b};
+  auto sc = (signed char){b};
+  auto s = short{b};
+  auto i = int{b};
+}
+
 } // namespace floats



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