Its been a while since my CheckerRegistry related patches landed, allow me to refresh your memory:
- During compilation, TblGen turns clang/include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.td into (build directory)/tools/clang/include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/Checkers.inc. This is a file that contains the full name of the checkers, their options, etc.
- The class that is responsible for parsing this file is CheckerRegistry. The job of this class is to establish what checkers are available for the analyzer (even from plugins and statically linked but non-tblgen generated files!), and calculate which ones should be turned on according to the analyzer's invocation.
- CheckerManager is the class that is responsible for the construction and storage of checkers. This process works by first creating a CheckerRegistry object, and passing itself to CheckerRegistry::initializeManager(CheckerManager&), which will call the checker registry functions (for example registerMallocChecker) on it.
The big problem here is that these two classes lie in two different libraries, so their interaction is pretty awkward. This used to be far worse, but I refactored much of it, which made things better but nowhere near perfect.
This patch changes how the above mentioned two classes interact. CheckerRegistry is mainly used by CheckerManager, and they are so intertwined, it makes a lot of sense to turn in into a field, instead of a one-time local variable. This has additional benefits: much of the information that CheckerRegistry conveniently holds is no longer thrown away right after the analyzer's initialization, and opens the possibility to pass CheckerManager in the shouldRegister* function rather then LangOptions (D75271).
There are a few problems with this. CheckerManager isn't the only user, when we honor help flags like -analyzer-checker-help, we only have access to a CompilerInstance class, that is before the point of parsing the AST. CheckerManager makes little sense without ASTContext, so I made some changes and added new constructors to make it constructible for the use of help flags.
Please mark these getters as const.