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[ASTMatchers] Force c++ unittests to specify correct language standard
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Authored by njames93 on May 31 2020, 2:18 AM.

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Force the unittests on c++ code for matchers to specify the correct standard.

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This is an interesting question. Since Clang accepts certain constructs in older C++ standard versions as extensions, shouldn't we test AST matchers in those modes as well? I think it could be argued either way.

Approving since I think that it is probably too costly for tooling to try to handle such language extensions. We also don't have a principled way to know what "future" C++ feature is supported in a given language mode, so I think we would always have implementation and testing gaps because people implementing tooling won't know what features to even expect in ASTs.

gribozavr2 accepted this revision.May 31 2020, 4:08 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 31 2020, 4:08 AM

This is an interesting question. Since Clang accepts certain constructs in older C++ standard versions as extensions, shouldn't we test AST matchers in those modes as well? I think it could be argued either way.

Clang accepts a lot of stuff for better or worse, my fist try at this was using -pedantic-errors, but that was throwing errors with gnu and microsoft extensions which would be a much more invasive fix to sort out.

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