baloghadamsoftware added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D54466#1297887, @NoQ wrote:

> > I marked this patch as WIP because I could not create a test-case for it. 
> > However in real projects this patch seems to reduce false positives 
> > significantly.
>
> False positives are hard to reduce via delta-debugging because they can be 
> accidentally reduced into true positives, because the distinction between 
> true positives and false positives cannot be tested automatically. But once 
> you fix the false positive, `creduce` can be used to reduce them by writing 
> down the condition as "the positive is there on the original clang but not on 
> the modified clang". Strongly recommended :)


`creduce` did not work (continous `clang_delta` crash) but somehow I managed to 
create tests.

>> Hmmm, shouldn't we add this to `MemRegion`'s interface instead?

This:

> I wouldn't insist, but this does indeed sound useful. I suggest 
> `MemRegion::getMostDerivedObjectRegion()` or something like that.

vs

> Also, ugh, that nomenclature: the base region of `CXXBaseObjectRegion` in 
> fact represents the //derived// object.

So if `CXXBaseObjectRegion` is the derived object, then 
`MemRegion::getMostDerivedObjectRegion()` gets the least derived object region 
now?


https://reviews.llvm.org/D54466



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