Skip both character pointers and void pointers when diagnosing bad
argument types for mem{set,cpy,move}. Character pointers, much like void
pointers, often point to generic "memory", so trying to check whether
they match the type of the argument to 'sizeof' (or other checks) is
unproductive and often results in false positives.
Nico, please review; does this miss any of the bugs you were trying to
find with this warning? The array test case you had should be caught by
the array-specific sizeof warning I think.
llvm-svn: 133136
diff --git a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp
index d45ebf9..945964f 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Sema/SemaChecking.cpp
@@ -1866,7 +1866,9 @@
if (const PointerType *DestPtrTy = DestTy->getAs<PointerType>()) {
QualType PointeeTy = DestPtrTy->getPointeeType();
- if (PointeeTy->isVoidType())
+ // Don't warn about void pointers or char pointers as both are often used
+ // for directly representing memory, regardless of its underlying type.
+ if (PointeeTy->isVoidType() || PointeeTy->isCharType())
continue;
// Catch "memset(p, 0, sizeof(p))" -- needs to be sizeof(*p).
diff --git a/clang/test/SemaCXX/warn-memset-bad-sizeof.cpp b/clang/test/SemaCXX/warn-memset-bad-sizeof.cpp
index 9221590..167f05f 100644
--- a/clang/test/SemaCXX/warn-memset-bad-sizeof.cpp
+++ b/clang/test/SemaCXX/warn-memset-bad-sizeof.cpp
@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@
}
// http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/c-faq/c-2.html#2-6
-void f(char fake_array[8], Mat m, const Foo& const_foo) {
+void f(Mat m, const Foo& const_foo) {
S s;
S* ps = &s;
PS ps2 = &s;
+ char c = 42;
char arr[5];
char* parr[5];
Foo foo;
@@ -42,8 +43,6 @@
// expected-warning {{the argument to sizeof is pointer type 'typeof (ps2)' (aka 'S *'), expected 'S' to match first argument to 'memset'}}
memset(ps2, 0, sizeof(PS)); // \
// expected-warning {{the argument to sizeof is pointer type 'PS' (aka 'S *'), expected 'S' to match first argument to 'memset'}}
- memset(fake_array, 0, sizeof(fake_array)); // \
- // expected-warning {{the argument to sizeof is pointer type 'char *', expected 'char' to match first argument to 'memset'}}
memcpy(&s, 0, sizeof(&s)); // \
// expected-warning {{the argument to sizeof is pointer type 'S *', expected 'S' to match first argument to 'memcpy'}}
@@ -69,6 +68,8 @@
memcpy(&foo, &const_foo, sizeof(Foo));
memcpy((void*)&s, 0, sizeof(&s));
memcpy(0, (void*)&s, sizeof(&s));
+ memcpy(&parr[3], &c, sizeof(&c));
+ memcpy((char*)&parr[3], &c, sizeof(&c));
CFooRef cfoo = foo;
memcpy(&foo, &cfoo, sizeof(Foo));