[clang] [clang][AST] Assert that ConstantExpr type and APValue kind match (PR #230388)

Timm Baeder via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Oct 9 21:08:27 PDT 2026


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@@ -319,6 +319,107 @@ ConstantResultStorageKind ConstantExpr::getStorageKind(const APValue &Value) {
   }
 }
 
+// Check that V is a valid APValue result of E, i.e. the node type needs to
+// match the APValue kind.
+static void assertAPValueKind(const ConstantExpr *E, const APValue &V) {
+  // FIXME: We shouldn't be creating ConstantExpr nodes for missing APValues in
+  // the first place, but for the time being, accept this for any type.
+  if (V.isAbsent())
+    return;
+
+  if (E->isGLValue()) {
+    // NOTE: The restrictions for lvalue expressions are not 100% clear. We
+    // can't assert(V.isLValue()) because some ConstantExprs are lvalue and
+    // their result is a string literal, so an Array.
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tbaederr wrote:

This exists because for some gcc asm statements, where we use `Sema::EvaluateAsString` which gives us an rvalue (i.e. an `APValue` of type `Array`), but the subexpression is an lvalue of type `std::string_view`. lvlaue-to-rvalue conversion doesn't do anything on record types so that doesn't work.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/230388


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