[cfe-dev] [analyzer] UninitializedObjectChecker evaluation

[Kristóf Umann via cfe-dev]

+ Dmitri Gribenko

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 22:25, Kristóf Umann <dkszelethus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As of https://reviews.llvm.org/D58573, UninitializedObjectChecker is out
> of alpha. Since that patch landed, I've received some bug reports, which
> I'm super grateful for, both for finding and reporting the errors, and also
> for the reason that it's being used.
>
> Since it is being used, however, I'm very interested in the user
> experience. I personally found it to be almost unbearably noisy for LLVM,
> as this checker finds partially/fully uninitialized objects, and as a
> performance critical project, it takes advantage of not initializing
> certain fields.
>
> My experience for any "regular" projects however was very different,
> analyzing cppcheck, bitcoin, rtags, cap n proto, xerces resulted gathering
> some very meaningful reports, often pointing out errors such as
>
> struct MyStruct {
>   MyStruct() {} // should be = default;
>   int a, b,  c, d;
> };
>
> struct DidntHaveTheTimeToWriteAProperConstructor {
>   DidntHaveTheTimeToWriteAProperConstructor() : a(0), b(0) {}
>
>   int a, b, hopeNobodyForgetsAboutThisOne;
> };
>
> Could you please share some of your experiences using this checker? Would
> you like to see some improvements being made? Would you configure this
> checker for your project, if you were exposed to some checker options?
>
> Cheers!
> Kristóf
>
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