The checks for the 'z' and 't' format specifiers added in the original
PR #143653 had some issues and were overly strict, causing some build
failures and were consequently reverted at
4c85bf2fe8.
In the latest commit
27c58629ec,
I relaxed the checks for the 'z' and 't' format specifiers, so warnings
are now only issued when they are used with mismatched types.
The original intent of these checks was to diagnose code that assumes
the underlying type of `size_t` is `unsigned` or `unsigned long`, for
example:
```c
printf("%zu", 1ul); // Not portable, but not an error when size_t is unsigned long
```
However, it produced a significant number of false positives. This was
partly because Clang does not treat the `typedef` `size_t` and
`__size_t` as having a common "sugar" type, and partly because a large
amount of existing code either assumes `unsigned` (or `unsigned long`)
is `size_t`, or they define the equivalent of size_t in their own way
(such as
sanitizer_internal_defs.h).2e67dcfdcd/compiler-rt/lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_internal_defs.h (L203)
Including the results of `sizeof`, `sizeof...`, `__datasizeof`,
`__alignof`, `_Alignof`, `alignof`, `_Countof`, `size_t` literals, and
signed `size_t` literals, the results of pointer-pointer subtraction and
checks for standard library functions (and their calls).
The goal is to enable clang and downstream tools such as clangd and
clang-tidy to provide more portable hints and diagnostics.
The previous discussion can be found at #136542.
This PR implements this feature by introducing a new subtype of `Type`
called `PredefinedSugarType`, which was considered appropriate in
discussions. I tried to keep `PredefinedSugarType` simple enough yet not
limited to `size_t` and `ptrdiff_t` so that it can be used for other
purposes. `PredefinedSugarType` wraps a canonical `Type` and provides a
name, conceptually similar to a compiler internal `TypedefType` but
without depending on a `TypedefDecl` or a source file.
Additionally, checks for the `z` and `t` format specifiers in format
strings for `scanf` and `printf` were added. It will precisely match
expressions using `typedef`s or built-in expressions.
The affected tests indicates that it works very well.
Several code require that `SizeType` is canonical, so I kept `SizeType`
to its canonical form.
The failed tests in CI are allowed to fail. See the
[comment](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/135386#issuecomment-3049426611)
in another PR #135386.
Main reason for this change is that these checkers were implemented in the same class
but had different dependency ordering. (NonNullParamChecker should run before StdCLibraryFunctionArgs
to get more special warning about null arguments, but the apiModeling.StdCLibraryFunctions was a modeling
checker that should run before other non-modeling checkers. The modeling checker changes state in a way
that makes it impossible to detect a null argument by NonNullParamChecker.)
To make it more simple, the modeling part is removed as separate checker and can be only used if
checker StdCLibraryFunctions is turned on, that produces the warnings too. Modeling the functions
without bug detection (for invalid argument) is not possible. The modeling of standard functions
does not happen by default from this change on.
Reviewed By: Szelethus
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D151225
without prototypes. This patch converts the function signatures to have
a prototype for the situations where the test is not specific to K&R C
declarations. e.g.,
void func();
becomes
void func(void);
This is the ninth batch of tests being updated (there are a
significant number of other tests left to be updated).
Summary:
In this patch I am trying to get rid of the `Irrelevant` types from the
signatures of the functions from the standard C library. For that I've
introduced `lookupType()` to be able to lookup arbitrary types in the global
scope. This makes it possible to define the signatures precisely.
Note 1) `fread`'s signature is now fixed to have the proper `FILE *restrict`
type when C99 is the language.
Note 2) There are still existing `Irrelevant` types, but they are all from
POSIX. I am planning to address those together with the missing POSIX functions
(in D79433).
Reviewers: xazax.hun, NoQ, Szelethus, balazske
Subscribers: whisperity, baloghadamsoftware, szepet, rnkovacs, a.sidorin, mikhail.ramalho, donat.nagy, dkrupp, gamesh411, Charusso, steakhal, ASDenysPetrov, cfe-commits
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80016
