JonasToth added inline comments.

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Comment at: test/clang-tidy/hicpp-exception-baseclass.cpp:191
+void templated_thrower() { throw T{}(); }
+// CHECK-MESSAGES: [[@LINE-1]]:34: warning: throwing an exception whose type 
'int' is not derived from 'std::exception'
+
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JonasToth wrote:
> JonasToth wrote:
> > alexfh wrote:
> > > hokein wrote:
> > > > I think giving message on the template function here is confusing to 
> > > > users even it gets instantiated somewhere in this TU -- because users 
> > > > have to find the location that triggers the template instantiation.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe 
> > > > 1) Add a note which gives the instantiation location to the message, or
> > > > 2) ignore template case (some clang-tidy checks do this)
> > > In this particular case it seems to be useful to get warnings from 
> > > template instantiations. But the message will indeed be confusing.
> > > 
> > > Ideally, the message should have "in instantiation of xxx requested here" 
> > > notes attached, as clang warnings do. But this is not working 
> > > automatically, and it's implemented in Sema 
> > > (`Sema::PrintInstantiationStack()` in 
> > > lib/Sema/SemaTemplateInstantiate.cpp).
> > > 
> > > I wonder whether it's feasible to produce similar notes after Sema is 
> > > dead? Maybe not the whole instantiation stack, but at least it should be 
> > > possible to figure out that the enclosing function is a template 
> > > instantiation or is a member function of an type that is an instantiation 
> > > of a template. That would be useful for other checks as well.
> > It should be possible to figure out, that the type comes from template 
> > instantiation and that information could be added to the warning.
> > 
> > I will take a look at Sema and think about something like this. 
> > Unfortunatly i dont have a lot of time :/
> I did look further into the issue, i think it is non-trivial.
> 
> The newly added case is not a templated exception perse, but there is a 
> exception-factory, which is templated, that creates a normal exception.
> 
> I did add another note for template instantiations, but i could not figure 
> out a way to give better diagnostics for the new use-case.
@hokein and @alexfh Do you still have your concerns (the exception is not a 
template value, but the factory creating them) or is this fix acceptable?


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D48714



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