[llvm] r284364 - ADT: Use LLVM_NODISCARD instead of LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT for StringRef

Pete Cooper via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Nov 28 13:11:56 PST 2016


> On Nov 28, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Justin Bogner via llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm going to +1 Zach here, this doesn't seem like a good use of the
>> attribute.
>> 
>> It's perfectly reasonable to have an API that returns an optionally useful
>> StringRef (& I'd be fairly sure we have a few in the LLVM project already,
> 
> As I've stated elsewhere, I disagree that it's particularly reasonable,
> and I haven't seen any concrete arguments as to why it is other than
> Zach's very confusing sounding consumeInteger variant.
> 
> We certainly don't have any such functions in LLVM already - this
> attribute was on StringRef for a month before any complaints and the the
> only changes needed to add the attribute were:
> 
> - Adding an explicit cast to a use of an accessor that looked spurious,
>  but was actually just highly misleading by calling an accessor for
>  side effects only (r284341)
> - Casting some accessors to void in a unit test that didn't bother to
>  actually check anything (r284350)
> - Removing a StringRef return that was never used (r284348)
Honestly i don't really mind whether we end up with the attribute or not, but right now i haven't seen a good reason to remove it.

Zachary, I know you are active in LLDB.  Is this causing problems in that codebase that we just aren't aware of?

Pete
> 
>> but even if we don't I'd still be in favor of continuing to allow such API
>> design without workarounds like void casts or extra attributes to opt out -
>> especially considering templates in APIs that might expose such things
>> indirectly (& possibly be unannotatable because they're in the STL))
>> 
>> LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT on a type was really designed/intended for
>> types like llvm::Error (eg:
>> http://google.github.io/google-api-cpp-client/latest/doxygen/classgoogleapis_1_1util_1_1Status.html
>> ).
>> It doesn't seem appropriate to put this on generic value types (& as Zach
>> said - if that were the case we'd probably end up putting it on basically
>> every type, and at that point should consider a generic warning for ignored
>> return values - but I don't think that would be practical)
>> 
>> - Dave
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:44 PM Justin Bogner via llvm-commits <
>> llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Author: bogner
>>> Date: Mon Oct 17 01:35:23 2016
>>> New Revision: 284364
>>> 
>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=284364&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> ADT: Use LLVM_NODISCARD instead of LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT for
>>> StringRef
>>> 
>>> Instead of annotating (most of) the StringRef API, we can just
>>> annotate the type directly. This is less code and it will warn in more
>>> cases.
>>> 
>>> Modified:
>>>    llvm/trunk/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
>>> 
>>> Modified: llvm/trunk/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
>>> URL:
>>> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h?rev=284364&r1=284363&r2=284364&view=diff
>>> 
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- llvm/trunk/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h (original)
>>> +++ llvm/trunk/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h Mon Oct 17 01:35:23 2016
>>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>   /// situations where the character data resides in some other buffer,
>>> whose
>>>   /// lifetime extends past that of the StringRef. For this reason, it is
>>> not in
>>>   /// general safe to store a StringRef.
>>> -  class StringRef {
>>> +  class LLVM_NODISCARD StringRef {
>>>   public:
>>>     typedef const char *iterator;
>>>     typedef const char *const_iterator;
>>> @@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     ///
>>>     /// \returns The index of the first character satisfying \p F
>>> starting from
>>>     /// \p From, or npos if not found.
>>> +    LLVM_NODISCARD
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     size_t find_if(function_ref<bool(char)> F, size_t From = 0) const {
>>>       StringRef S = drop_front(From);
>>>       while (!S.empty()) {
>>> @@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     ///
>>>     /// \returns The index of the first character not satisfying \p F
>>> starting
>>>     /// from \p From, or npos if not found.
>>> +    LLVM_NODISCARD
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     size_t find_if_not(function_ref<bool(char)> F, size_t From = 0) const
>>> {
>>>       return find_if([F](char c) { return !F(c); }, From);
>>>     }
>>> @@ -500,7 +500,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// exceeds the number of characters remaining in the string, the
>>> string
>>>     /// suffix (starting with \p Start) will be returned.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef substr(size_t Start, size_t N = npos) const {
>>>       Start = std::min(Start, Length);
>>>       return StringRef(Data + Start, std::min(N, Length - Start));
>>> @@ -510,7 +509,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// elements remaining.  If \p N is greater than the length of the
>>>     /// string, the entire string is returned.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef take_front(size_t N = 1) const {
>>>       if (N >= size())
>>>         return *this;
>>> @@ -521,7 +519,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// elements remaining.  If \p N is greater than the length of the
>>>     /// string, the entire string is returned.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef take_back(size_t N = 1) const {
>>>       if (N >= size())
>>>         return *this;
>>> @@ -531,7 +528,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return the longest prefix of 'this' such that every character
>>>     /// in the prefix satisfies the given predicate.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef take_while(function_ref<bool(char)> F) const {
>>>       return substr(0, find_if_not(F));
>>>     }
>>> @@ -539,7 +535,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return the longest prefix of 'this' such that no character in
>>>     /// the prefix satisfies the given predicate.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef take_until(function_ref<bool(char)> F) const {
>>>       return substr(0, find_if(F));
>>>     }
>>> @@ -547,7 +542,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return a StringRef equal to 'this' but with the first \p N
>>> elements
>>>     /// dropped.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef drop_front(size_t N = 1) const {
>>>       assert(size() >= N && "Dropping more elements than exist");
>>>       return substr(N);
>>> @@ -556,7 +550,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return a StringRef equal to 'this' but with the last \p N elements
>>>     /// dropped.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef drop_back(size_t N = 1) const {
>>>       assert(size() >= N && "Dropping more elements than exist");
>>>       return substr(0, size()-N);
>>> @@ -565,7 +558,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return a StringRef equal to 'this', but with all characters
>>> satisfying
>>>     /// the given predicate dropped from the beginning of the string.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef drop_while(function_ref<bool(char)> F) const {
>>>       return substr(find_if_not(F));
>>>     }
>>> @@ -573,15 +565,14 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// Return a StringRef equal to 'this', but with all characters not
>>>     /// satisfying the given predicate dropped from the beginning of the
>>> string.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef drop_until(function_ref<bool(char)> F) const {
>>>       return substr(find_if(F));
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Returns true if this StringRef has the given prefix and removes
>>> that
>>>     /// prefix.
>>> +    LLVM_NODISCARD
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     bool consume_front(StringRef Prefix) {
>>>       if (!startswith(Prefix))
>>>         return false;
>>> @@ -592,8 +583,8 @@ namespace llvm {
>>> 
>>>     /// Returns true if this StringRef has the given suffix and removes
>>> that
>>>     /// suffix.
>>> +    LLVM_NODISCARD
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     bool consume_back(StringRef Suffix) {
>>>       if (!endswith(Suffix))
>>>         return false;
>>> @@ -614,7 +605,6 @@ namespace llvm {
>>>     /// will be returned. If this is less than \p Start, an empty string
>>> will
>>>     /// be returned.
>>>     LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_ALWAYS_INLINE
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef slice(size_t Start, size_t End) const {
>>>       Start = std::min(Start, Length);
>>>       End = std::min(std::max(Start, End), Length);
>>> @@ -709,42 +699,36 @@ namespace llvm {
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive \p Char characters starting from
>>> the
>>>     /// the left removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef ltrim(char Char) const {
>>>       return drop_front(std::min(Length, find_first_not_of(Char)));
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive characters in \p Chars starting
>>> from
>>>     /// the left removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef ltrim(StringRef Chars = " \t\n\v\f\r") const {
>>>       return drop_front(std::min(Length, find_first_not_of(Chars)));
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive \p Char characters starting from
>>> the
>>>     /// right removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef rtrim(char Char) const {
>>>       return drop_back(Length - std::min(Length, find_last_not_of(Char) +
>>> 1));
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive characters in \p Chars starting
>>> from
>>>     /// the right removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef rtrim(StringRef Chars = " \t\n\v\f\r") const {
>>>       return drop_back(Length - std::min(Length, find_last_not_of(Chars)
>>> + 1));
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive \p Char characters starting from
>>> the
>>>     /// left and right removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef trim(char Char) const {
>>>       return ltrim(Char).rtrim(Char);
>>>     }
>>> 
>>>     /// Return string with consecutive characters in \p Chars starting
>>> from
>>>     /// the left and right removed.
>>> -    LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT
>>>     StringRef trim(StringRef Chars = " \t\n\v\f\r") const {
>>>       return ltrim(Chars).rtrim(Chars);
>>>     }
>>> 
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