[llvm-dev] Spurious cast warning for C++? (original) (raw)

mats petersson via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Apr 10 02:39:40 PDT 2017


What does "have no effect" mean in this case? In my mind, there are many casts that have no effect - other than allowing the code to compile, which is quite an important effect in itself (e.g. casting a 32-bit unsigned to a pointer on your typical 32-bit system).

Are you seeking to warn for:

int a; int b;

a = (int) b;

and similar things?

-- Mats

On 9 April 2017 at 20:35, Craig Topper via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org

wrote:

This is question is probably better on the clang cfe-dev list.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:01 PM Brennan Vincent via llvm-dev <_ _llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

How difficult would it be to add a warning to Clang when the programmer performs a cast that provably has no effect?

A particular case I have in mind is someone getting confused and calling std::move on an argument to a copy-constructor for a class that doesn't implement move semantics. I would be grateful if someone either (1) told me why this is difficult/impossible, or (2) gave me some pointers to where I could start trying to implement it...


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