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.
This change allows array variables to copy-initialize from other arrays.
It also corrects a small error in HLSL C-Style casting that did not
error on casting to arrays if elementwise and splat conversions fail.
Fixes#127551
