MisplacedConstCheck.cpp

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
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#include "MisplacedConstCheck.h"
#include "clang/AST/ASTContext.h"
#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
 
using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
 
namespace clang::tidy::misc {
 
void MisplacedConstCheck::registerMatchers(MatchFinder *Finder) {
  auto NonConstAndNonFunctionPointerType = hasType(pointerType(unless(
      pointee(anyOf(isConstQualified(), ignoringParens(functionType()))))));
 
  Finder->addMatcher(
      valueDecl(
          hasType(qualType(isConstQualified(),
                           typedefType(hasDeclaration(anyOf(
                               typedefDecl(NonConstAndNonFunctionPointerType)
                                   .bind("typedef"),
                               typeAliasDecl(NonConstAndNonFunctionPointerType)
                                   .bind("typeAlias")))))))
          .bind("decl"),
      this);
}
 
static QualType guessAlternateQualification(ASTContext &Context, QualType QT) {
  // We're given a QualType from a typedef where the qualifiers apply to the
  // pointer instead of the pointee. Strip the const qualifier from the pointer
  // type and add it to the pointee instead.
  if (!QT->isPointerType())
    return QT;
 
  Qualifiers Quals = QT.getLocalQualifiers();
  Quals.removeConst();
 
  QualType NewQT = Context.getPointerType(
      QualType(QT->getPointeeType().getTypePtr(), Qualifiers::Const));
  return NewQT.withCVRQualifiers(Quals.getCVRQualifiers());
}
 
void MisplacedConstCheck::check(const MatchFinder::MatchResult &Result) {
  const auto *Var = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<ValueDecl>("decl");
  ASTContext &Ctx = *Result.Context;
  QualType CanQT = Var->getType().getCanonicalType();
 
  SourceLocation AliasLoc;
  const char *AliasType = nullptr;
  if (const auto *Typedef = Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<TypedefDecl>("typedef")) {
    AliasLoc = Typedef->getLocation();
    AliasType = "typedef";
  } else if (const auto *TypeAlias =
                 Result.Nodes.getNodeAs<TypeAliasDecl>("typeAlias")) {
    AliasLoc = TypeAlias->getLocation();
    AliasType = "type alias";
  } else {
    llvm_unreachable("registerMatchers has registered an unknown matcher,"
                     " code out of sync");
  }
 
  diag(Var->getLocation(), "%0 declared with a const-qualified %1; "
                           "results in the type being '%2' instead of '%3'")
      << Var << AliasType << CanQT.getAsString(Ctx.getPrintingPolicy())
      << guessAlternateQualification(Ctx, CanQT)
             .getAsString(Ctx.getPrintingPolicy());
  diag(AliasLoc, "%0 declared here", DiagnosticIDs::Note) << AliasType;
}
 
} // namespace clang::tidy::misc