On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 15:42 , Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2012, at 15:23 , Eli Friedman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jordan Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Author: jrose
>>>>> Date: Mon Jun 18 17:09:19 2012
>>>>> New Revision: 158683
>>>>>
>>>>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=158683&view=rev
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Support -Winternal-linkage-in-inline in C++ code.
>>>>>
>>>>> This includes treating anonymous namespaces like internal linkage, and 
>>>>> allowing
>>>>> const variables to be used even if internal. The whole thing's been 
>>>>> broken out
>>>>> into a separate function to avoid nested ifs.
>>>>
>>>> I think it's worth pointing out that in the C++ case, the given
>>>> testcase doesn't strictly violate ODR because the  definition of the
>>>> function in question isn't actually used in multiple files.  Because
>>>> of that, it shouldn't be an error with -pedantic-errors (the
>>>> diagnostic should use Warning rather than Extension/ExtWarn), and you
>>>> should watch to see if there are any bug reports with false positives.
>>>> (I think false positives are unlikely, but not impossible.)
>>>
>>> Ah, I see. Without cross-TU analysis, we can't tell if a function is used 
>>> in multiple files or not. I think it's valid to leave this as ExtWarn when 
>>> it's in a header file…it's kind of a ticking time bomb.
>>
>> -pedantic-errors shouldn't cause us to reject valid code, and not all
>> #included files are intended to be included multiple times (we have
>> several examples of this in Clang, with (for instance) files generated
>> by tablegen).
>>
>> Have you considered implementing the check for whether a variable used
>> within such an inline function has a literal type (or, in C++98, an
>> integral or enumeration type), and checking whether the initializer is
>> a constant expression?
>>
>> Checking whether the variable's address is used seems trickier,
>> perhaps we can use the result of the odr-use checking mechanism?
>
> I skipped the literal type check; currently it allows all const variables 
> with initializers, literal or not. There's also no check for the address 
> clause (which I mistakenly interpreted as equivalent to "prvalue only", but 
> which allows references). Those checks won't cause us to reject valid code.
>
> The only valid code we will reject under -pedantic-errors here is code that 
> references internal linkage / anonymous namespace non-constant variables or 
> functions from a file that is included in one translation unit in the entire 
> compilation. From the perspective of perfection, this is technically 
> incorrect, and for -pedantic-errors that may be what we want. But there is 
> never a case where this is not fixable (by putting the offending 
> function/method in an anonymous namespace), and if someday the included file 
> shows up in two translation units you have a legitimate pedantic-error which 
> could affect the behavior of your program.
>
> I'm genuinely not sure which is worse: missing an error because we don't do 
> cross-TU checking, or preventing compilation on the case where something is 
> only included once. We'd warn whether it's ExtWarn or Warning, so that's not 
> the issue.

Changing ExtWarn -> Warning seems to have no downside. It just makes
-pedantic-errors more pedantically correct, which is, after all, the
point. If someone is using -pedantic-errors but not -Werror, they will
get what they asked for -- allowing this code is not an extension,
after all.

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