Added a new check so that casting between tag types doesn't give the
warning.  Casting to/from chars and voids won't throw the warning either.
 Anything else needed?

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:13 AM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> > I share John and Doug's concern over false positive rates. However, I'd
> like to evaluate that by getting a conservative version of this in, trying
> it on some code, and evaluating the fallout. If this isn't useful we can
> drop it.
>
> As long as it's off by default and enabled by some extremely specific
> flag like -Wpedantic-aliasing.  I am not willing to consider a diagnostic
> that's on by default unless it's policing the relaxed aliasing rules that
> Clang uses, where l-values that "obviously" alias are allowed to alias
> regardless of type.
>
> > However, I think we could do a couple of things more to avoid
> false-positives:
> >
> > 1) Only warn on reference reinterpret casts when the result is in an
> lvalue-to-rvalue cast to avoid this false positive:
> >
> > float f = 0.0f;
> > int *x = &reinterpret_cast<int&>(f);
>
> That's probably reasonable.  I'd actually be okay with warning on this
> in general if you can come up with a small set of "universal-ish" types
> that
> you think it's reasonable to cast something through, like maybe void& and
> void*.
>
> Oh, and of course you can't warn about reinterpret_casts to/from
> references/pointers to char types.
>
> > 2) Don't warn for reinterpret casts of tag types.
>
> Probably a good first iteration.
>
> John.
>
Index: test/SemaCXX/reinterpret-cast.cpp
===================================================================
--- test/SemaCXX/reinterpret-cast.cpp	(revision 130335)
+++ test/SemaCXX/reinterpret-cast.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// RUN: %clang_cc1 -fsyntax-only -verify -ffreestanding %s
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -fsyntax-only -verify -ffreestanding -Wundefined-reinterpret-cast %s
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
@@ -116,3 +116,53 @@
   __attribute((ext_vector_type(4))) typedef float v4;
   float& w(v4 &a) { return reinterpret_cast<float&>(a[1]); } // expected-error {{not allowed}}
 }
+
+void dereference_reinterpret_cast() {
+  struct A {};
+  class B {};
+  A a, aa;
+  B b, bb;
+  long x, xx;
+  double z, zz;
+  char c, cc;
+  unsigned char uc;
+  void* v_ptr;
+  z = reinterpret_cast<double&>(x);  // expected-warning {{reinterpret_cast from 'long' to 'double &' has undefined behavior}}
+  c = reinterpret_cast<char&>(x);
+  z = *reinterpret_cast<double*>(&x);  // expected-warning {{dereference of type 'double *' that was reinterpret_cast from type 'long *' has undefined behavior}}
+  c = *reinterpret_cast<char*>(&x);
+
+  a = reinterpret_cast<A&>(b);
+  a = *reinterpret_cast<A*>(&b);
+  a = reinterpret_cast<A&>(aa);
+  a = *reinterpret_cast<A*>(&aa);
+  b = reinterpret_cast<B&>(bb);
+  b = *reinterpret_cast<B*>(&bb);
+  x = reinterpret_cast<long&>(xx);
+  x = *reinterpret_cast<long*>(&xx);
+  z = reinterpret_cast<double&>(zz);
+  z = *reinterpret_cast<double*>(&zz);
+  c = reinterpret_cast<char&>(cc);
+  c = *reinterpret_cast<char*>(&cc);
+
+  // Casting to and from chars are allowable
+  a = reinterpret_cast<A&>(cc);
+  a = *reinterpret_cast<A*>(&cc);
+  b = reinterpret_cast<B&>(cc);
+  b = *reinterpret_cast<B*>(&cc);
+  x = reinterpret_cast<long&>(cc);
+  x = *reinterpret_cast<long*>(&cc);
+  z = reinterpret_cast<double&>(cc);
+  z = *reinterpret_cast<double*>(&cc);
+  c = reinterpret_cast<char&>(xx);
+  c = *reinterpret_cast<char*>(&xx);
+  c = reinterpret_cast<char&>(zz);
+  c = *reinterpret_cast<char*>(&zz);
+
+  // Casting from void pointer.
+  a = *reinterpret_cast<A*>(v_ptr);
+  b = *reinterpret_cast<B*>(v_ptr);
+  x = *reinterpret_cast<long*>(v_ptr);
+  z = *reinterpret_cast<double*>(v_ptr);
+  c = *reinterpret_cast<char*>(v_ptr);
+}
Index: include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticSemaKinds.td
===================================================================
--- include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticSemaKinds.td	(revision 130335)
+++ include/clang/Basic/DiagnosticSemaKinds.td	(working copy)
@@ -2637,6 +2637,10 @@
   "indirection of non-volatile null pointer will be deleted, not trap">, InGroup<NullDereference>;
 def note_indirection_through_null : Note<
   "consider using __builtin_trap() or qualifying pointer with 'volatile'">;
+def warn_pointer_indirection_from_incompatible_type : Warning<
+  "dereference of type %0 that was reinterpret_cast from type %1 has undefined "
+  "behavior.">,
+  InGroup<DiagGroup<"undefined-reinterpret-cast">>, DefaultIgnore;
 
 def err_assignment_requires_nonfragile_object : Error<
   "cannot assign to class object in non-fragile ABI (%0 invalid)">;
@@ -2900,6 +2904,9 @@
 def err_bad_static_cast_incomplete : Error<"%0 is an incomplete type">;
 def err_bad_reinterpret_cast_reference : Error<
   "reinterpret_cast of a %0 to %1 needs its address which is not allowed">;
+def warn_undefined_reinterpret_cast : Warning<
+  "reinterpret_cast from %0 to %1 has undefined behavior.">,
+  InGroup<DiagGroup<"undefined-reinterpret-cast">>, DefaultIgnore;
 
 // These messages don't adhere to the pattern.
 // FIXME: Display the path somehow better.
Index: include/clang/Sema/Sema.h
===================================================================
--- include/clang/Sema/Sema.h	(revision 130335)
+++ include/clang/Sema/Sema.h	(working copy)
@@ -2574,6 +2574,10 @@
                                ParsedType ObjectType,
                                bool EnteringContext);
 
+  // Checks that reinterpret casts don't have undefined behavior.
+  // Returns false when the reinterpret cast results in undefined behavior.
+  bool CompatibleReinterpretCast(QualType SrcType, QualType DestPointeeType);
+
   /// ActOnCXXNamedCast - Parse {dynamic,static,reinterpret,const}_cast's.
   ExprResult ActOnCXXNamedCast(SourceLocation OpLoc,
                                tok::TokenKind Kind,
Index: lib/Sema/SemaCXXCast.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Sema/SemaCXXCast.cpp	(revision 130335)
+++ lib/Sema/SemaCXXCast.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -1288,6 +1288,27 @@
   return TC_Success;
 }
 
+// Returns false if the reinterpret_cast has undefined behavior.
+// SrcType = A, DestType = B
+// *reinterpret_cast<B*>(&A)
+// reinterpret_cast<&B>(A)
+bool Sema::CompatibleReinterpretCast(QualType SrcType,
+                                     QualType DestType) {
+  // Cast is compatible if the types are the same.
+  if (Context.hasSameUnqualifiedType(DestType, SrcType)) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  // or one of the types is a char or void type
+  if (DestType->isAnyCharacterType() || DestType->isVoidType() ||
+      SrcType->isAnyCharacterType() || SrcType->isVoidType()) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  // or one of the types is a tag type.
+  if (isa<TagType>(SrcType) && isa<TagType>(DestType)) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
 
 static TryCastResult TryReinterpretCast(Sema &Self, ExprResult &SrcExpr,
                                         QualType DestType, bool CStyle,
@@ -1324,6 +1345,13 @@
       return TC_NotApplicable;
     }
 
+    QualType DestPointeeType = DestTypeTmp->getPointeeType();
+
+    if (!CStyle && !Self.CompatibleReinterpretCast(SrcType, DestPointeeType)) {
+        Self.Diag(OpRange.getBegin(), diag::warn_undefined_reinterpret_cast)
+          << SrcType << DestType << OpRange;
+    }
+
     // C++ 5.2.10p10: [...] a reference cast reinterpret_cast<T&>(x) has the
     //   same effect as the conversion *reinterpret_cast<T*>(&x) with the
     //   built-in & and * operators.
@@ -1345,7 +1373,7 @@
     }
 
     // This code does this transformation for the checked types.
-    DestType = Self.Context.getPointerType(DestTypeTmp->getPointeeType());
+    DestType = Self.Context.getPointerType(DestPointeeType);
     SrcType = Self.Context.getPointerType(SrcType);
     
     IsLValueCast = true;
Index: lib/Sema/SemaExpr.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Sema/SemaExpr.cpp	(revision 130335)
+++ lib/Sema/SemaExpr.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -8393,7 +8393,18 @@
   Op = ConvResult.take();
   QualType OpTy = Op->getType();
   QualType Result;
-  
+
+  if (S.getLangOptions().CPlusPlus && isa<CXXReinterpretCastExpr>(Op)) {
+    QualType OpOrigType = Op->IgnoreParenCasts()->getType();
+    if (OpOrigType->isPointerType() && OpTy->isPointerType()) {
+      if (!S.CompatibleReinterpretCast(OpOrigType->getPointeeType(),
+                                       OpTy->getPointeeType())) {
+          S.Diag(OpLoc, diag::warn_pointer_indirection_from_incompatible_type)
+            << OpTy << OpOrigType << Op->getSourceRange();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   // Note that per both C89 and C99, indirection is always legal, even if OpTy
   // is an incomplete type or void.  It would be possible to warn about
   // dereferencing a void pointer, but it's completely well-defined, and such a
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