[llvm-dev] Spurious cast warning for C++?

Craig Topper via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Sun Apr 9 12:35:31 PDT 2017


This is question is probably better on the clang  cfe-dev list.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:01 PM Brennan Vincent via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> How difficult would it be to add a warning to Clang when the programmer
> performs a cast that provably has no effect?
>
> A particular case I have in mind is someone getting confused and calling
> std::move on an argument to a copy-constructor for a class that doesn't
> implement move semantics.
>
> I would be grateful if someone either (1) told me why this is
> difficult/impossible, or (2) gave me some pointers to where I could
> start trying to implement it...
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