Previously, the warning would erroneously fire on this:
for (Test *a in someArray)
use(a.weakProp);
...because it looks like the same property is being accessed over and over.
However, clearly this is not the case. We now ignore loops like this for
local variables, but continue to warn if the base object is a parameter,
global variable, or instance variable, on the assumption that these are
not repeatedly usually assigned to within loops.
Additionally, do-while loops where the condition is 'false' are not really
loops at all; usually they're just used for semicolon-swallowing macros or
using "break" like "goto".
<rdar://problem/12578785&12578849>
llvm-svn: 166942
This is a "safe" pattern, or at least one that cannot be helped by using
a strong local variable. However, if the single read is within a loop,
it should /always/ be treated as potentially dangerous.
<rdar://problem/12437490>
llvm-svn: 165719
Previously, [foo weakProp] was not being treated the same as foo.weakProp.
Now, for every explicit message send, we check if it's a property access,
and if so, if the property is weak. Then for every assignment of a
message, we have to do the same thing again.
This is a potentially expensive increase because determining whether a
method is a property accessor requires searching through the methods it
overrides. However, without it -Warc-repeated-use-of-weak will miss cases
from people who prefer not to use dot syntax. If this turns out to be
too expensive, we can try caching the result somewhere, or even lose
precision by not checking superclass methods. The warning is off-by-default,
though.
<rdar://problem/12407765>
llvm-svn: 165718
Like properties, loading from a weak ivar twice in the same function can
give you inconsistent results if the object is deallocated between the
two loads. It is safer to assign to a strong local variable and use that.
Second half of <rdar://problem/12280249>.
llvm-svn: 164855
The motivating example:
if (self.weakProp)
use(self.weakProp);
As with any non-atomic test-then-use, it is possible a weak property to be
non-nil at the 'if', but be deallocated by the time it is used. The correct
way to write this example is as follows:
id tmp = self.weakProp;
if (tmp)
use(tmp);
The warning is controlled by -Warc-repeated-use-of-receiver, and uses the
property name and base to determine if the same property on the same object
is being accessed multiple times. In cases where the base is more
complicated than just a single Decl (e.g. 'foo.bar.weakProp'), it picks a
Decl for some degree of uniquing and reports the problem under a subflag,
-Warc-maybe-repeated-use-of-receiver. This gives a way to tune the
aggressiveness of the warning for a particular project.
The warning is not on by default because it is not flow-sensitive and thus
may have a higher-than-acceptable rate of false positives, though it is
less noisy than -Wreceiver-is-weak. On the other hand, it will not warn
about some cases that may be legitimate issues that -Wreceiver-is-weak
will catch, and it does not attempt to reason about methods returning weak
values.
Even though this is not a real "analysis-based" check I've put the bug
emission code in AnalysisBasedWarnings for two reasons: (1) to run on
every kind of code body (function, method, block, or lambda), and (2) to
suggest that it may be enhanced by flow-sensitive analysis in the future.
The second (smaller) half of this work is to extend it to weak locals
and weak ivars. This should use most of the same infrastructure.
Part of <rdar://problem/12280249>
llvm-svn: 164854
Jordan Rose