Discourse mail:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/analyzer-why-do-we-suck-at-modeling-c-dynamic-memory/65667
malloc() returns a piece of uninitialized dynamic memory. We were (almost)
always able to model this behaviour. Its C++ counterpart, operator new is a
lot more complex, because it allows for initialization, the most complicated of which is the usage of constructors.
We gradually became better in modeling constructors, but for some reason, most
likely for reasons lost in history, we never actually modeled the case when the
memory returned by operator new was just simply uninitialized. This patch
(attempts) to fix this tiny little error.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135375
Summary:
This checker verifies if default placement new is provided with pointers
to sufficient storage capacity.
Noncompliant Code Example:
#include <new>
void f() {
short s;
long *lp = ::new (&s) long;
}
Based on SEI CERT rule MEM54-CPP
https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/cplusplus/MEM54-CPP.+Provide+placement+new+with+properly+aligned+pointe
This patch does not implement checking of the alignment.
Reviewers: NoQ, xazax.hun
Subscribers: mgorny, whisperity, xazax.hun, baloghadamsoftware, szepet,
rnkovacs, a.sidorin, mikhail.ramalho, donat
Tags: #clang
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71612
