[cfe-users] False positive -Wcomma with static_cast<void> of dependent expression

Mat Sutcliffe via cfe-users cfe-users at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 18 15:39:56 PDT 2018


Hello list,

The following code generates one false positive of the -Wcomma
warning: (tested with clang trunk via Matt Godbolt's Compiler
Explorer)

template <typename T>
void foo()
{
    (void)42, 0;                // ok
    static_cast<void>(42), 0;   // ok

    (void)T{}, 0;               // ok
    static_cast<void>(T{}), 0;  // false positive
}

The warning ignores comma expressions where the LHS is a CastExpr with
a CastKind of CK_ToVoid, but the expression static_cast<void>(T{}) has
a CastKind of CK_Dependent (confirmed with Compiler Explorer's AST
view).

I came across this when trying to do the "expander trick" without a
fold expression or C-style cast, as in
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30563282/1639256

Thanks
Mat



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