This patch makes ubsan's nonnull return value diagnostics more precise,
which makes the diagnostics more useful when there are multiple return
statements in a function. Example:
1 |__attribute__((returns_nonnull)) char *foo() { 2 | if (...) { 3 | return expr_which_might_evaluate_to_null(); 4 | } else { 5 | return another_expr_which_might_evaluate_to_null(); 6 | } 7 |} // <- The current diagnostic always points here! runtime error: Null returned from Line 7, Column 2!
With this patch, the diagnostic would point to either Line 3, Column 5
or Line 5, Column 5.
This is done by emitting source location metadata for each return
statement in a sanitized function. The runtime is passed a pointer to
the appropriate metadata so that it can prepare and deduplicate reports.
Compiler-rt patch (with more tests): https://reviews.llvm.org/D34298
Can't you just keep the Constant* around and use it later for the static data? Instead of creating a global var and have runtime store/load?