On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 04:21:31PM +0100, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches wrote:
> This resurrects -Wunreachable-code and implements a warning for
> trivially unreachable code as of CFG construction. Most problematic
> with this is the C/C++ frontend added 'return 0;' stmt in main
> which the patch handles for C++ like the C frontend already does
> by using BUILTINS_LOCATION.
>
> Another problem for future enhancement is that after CFG construction
> we no longer can point to the stmt making a stmt unreachable, so
> this implementation tries to warn on the first unreachable
> statement of a region. It might be possible to retain a pointer
> to the stmt that triggered creation of a basic-block but I'm not
> sure how reliable that would be.
>
> So this is really a simple attempt for now, triggered by myself
> running into such a coding error. As always, the perfect is the
> enemy of the good.
>
> It does not pass bootstrap (which enables -Wextra), because of the
> situation in g++.dg/Wunreachable-code-5.C where the C++ frontend
> prematurely elides conditions like if (! GATHER_STATISTICS) that
> evaluate to true - oddly enough it does _not_ do this for
> conditions evaluating to false ... (one of the
> c-c++-common/Wunreachable-code-2.c cases).
I've taken a look into the C++ thing. This is genericize_if_stmt:
if we have
if (0)
return;
then cond is integer_zerop, then_ is a return_expr, but since it has
TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS, we create a COND_EXPR. For
if (!0)
return;
we do
170 else if (integer_nonzerop (cond) && !TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (else_))
171 stmt = then_;
which elides the if completely.
So it seems it would help if we avoided eliding the if stmt if
-Wunreachable-code is in effect. I'd be happy to make that change,
if it sounds sane.
Marek
