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[analyzer] Add portability package for the checkers.
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Authored by NoQ on Jun 12 2017, 6:23 AM.

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Checkers that find implementation-defined behavior seem to better be off by default - or, at least, there should be a way to turn them off - because we're not sure if our users are developing cross-platform code or target a specific platform. If the behavior is well-defined on any particular target platform, then the user may say "this code works correctly, the behavior is documented, i personally don't care about portability, so the analyzer shouldn't warn".

I'm introducing an optin.portability package with this patch. The UNIX zero-size-malloc check is moved here, because the behavior is implementation-defined according even to the C standard, and man pages of various platforms clearly document which behavior is implemented. Of course, that behavior is different on linux vs. bsd/mac though, which is the whole point of the checker.

Suggestions/complains are very welcome. I'm thinking of enabling portability checks by default when we're cross-compiling, or maybe on per-platform basis, eg. linux/bsd developers care about portability much more often (and in this case we shouldn't probably add the optin prefix to the package).

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NoQ created this revision.Jun 12 2017, 6:23 AM
NoQ added inline comments.
include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.td
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This rename is user-invisible and handy because it allows macros for registerChecker to work uniformly.

zaks.anna added inline comments.Jun 12 2017, 8:31 AM
include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.td
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Does this need to be in unix?

NoQ added inline comments.Jun 12 2017, 9:13 AM
include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.td
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Well,

  1. the description still says "UNIX/Posix" and
  2. even if we believe that malloc isn't a UNIX/Posix-specific thing, we'd also need to move our MallocChecker out of the unix package.

This is probably the right thing to do, but i didn't try to do it here. If we want this, i'd move the portability checker out of unix now and deal with MallocChecker in another patch. I can also move the portability checker's code into MallocChecker.cpp, because that's what we always wanted to do, according to a UnixAPIChecker's FIXME.

zaks.anna added inline comments.Jun 14 2017, 11:16 AM
include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.td
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If someone is interested in checking if their code is portable, they'd just enable profitability package. I do not think "unix" adds much here. I suggest to just add the check to portability package directly, change the name and make no other changes.
WDYT?

NoQ added a comment.Jun 16 2017, 8:21 AM

Here's a version of the patch without .unix. I'd still hate it to re-add the subpackages if we decide to turn some portability checkers on and off depending on language/platform (eg. checkers for portability across linux/bsd should be off on windows by default, checkers for non-portable C++ APIs should be off in plain C code, etc.).

NoQ updated this revision to Diff 102829.Jun 16 2017, 8:23 AM

Whoops, forgot to actually attach the patch. Here.

zaks.anna edited edge metadata.Jun 16 2017, 10:37 PM

eg. checkers for portability across linux/bsd should be off on windows by default, checkers for non-portable C++ APIs should be off in plain C code, etc

Is the checker you are moving to portability off and not useful on Windows?

NoQ added a comment.Jun 21 2017, 4:21 AM

eg. checkers for portability across linux/bsd should be off on windows by default, checkers for non-portable C++ APIs should be off in plain C code, etc

Is the checker you are moving to portability off and not useful on Windows?

It's the same as MallocChecker, as i explained above. A relevant code snippet from Driver.cpp:

2130     if (!IsWindowsMSVC) {
2131       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix");
2132     } else {
2133       // Enable "unix" checkers that also work on Windows.
2134       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.API");
2135       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.Malloc");
2136       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.MallocSizeof");
2137       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.MismatchedDeallocator");
2138       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.cstring.BadSizeArg");
2139       CmdArgs.push_back("-analyzer-checker=unix.cstring.NullArg");
2140     }

My concern is not about this checker, it's about having to rename this checker if we decide that we need sub-packages for other portability checkers we may add in the future, which is totally realistic.

This just supports the statement that this particular check should not go under unix. I understand that it will be inconsistent with the name of the malloc checker, which we probably should not change as people might be relying on the package names. I think it's better to have inconsistency than having checks applicable to windows in a package named portability.unix. If there will be checks that need to be in portability and only used for unix, we could create that sub-package later on.

NoQ added a comment.Jun 27 2017, 3:20 AM

I think it's better to have inconsistency than having checks applicable to windows in a package named portability.unix.

If there will be checks that need to be in portability and only used for unix, we could create that sub-package later on.

Sounds good to me, will commit then. Still, more reasons to have aliases or tags.

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