aaron.ballman added inline comments.

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Comment at: lib/Sema/SemaExpr.cpp:11067
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+  // Do not diagnose 2 ^ 64, but allow special case (2 ^ 64) - 1.
+  if (SubLHS && SubRHS && (LeftSideValue != 2 || RightSideValue != 64))
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jfb wrote:
> xbolva00 wrote:
> > xbolva00 wrote:
> > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > xbolva00 wrote:
> > > > > xbolva00 wrote:
> > > > > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > > > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > > > > > This comment explains what the code does, but not why it does 
> > > > > > > > it. Given that we're adding special cases, I think more 
> > > > > > > > comments here explaining why this is valuable would be 
> > > > > > > > appreciated.
> > > > > > > Thank you, the comments helped! But they also raised another 
> > > > > > > question for me. What's special about 2^64? Why not (2^16) - 1 or 
> > > > > > > other common power-of-two values? I would have expected 8, 16, 
> > > > > > > 32, and 64 to be handled similarly.
> > > > > > We generally suggest 1LL << C. But here we cant say 1LL << 64.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > (2^16)-1 is diagnosed normally since we go here from “visit xor” 
> > > > > > code.
> > > > > >  ^^^^
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This (2^64)-1 handling was suggested by jfb.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I see no motivation cases to diagnose 2^65, 2^100, ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > I think the suggestion for (2^32)-1:
> > > > > (1LL<32)-1 is good, or should we make things more complicated and 
> > > > > suggest Int max macro? 
> > > > > We generally suggest 1LL << C. But here we cant say 1LL << 64.
> > > > 
> > > > Ah, good point.
> > > > 
> > > > > I see no motivation cases to diagnose 2^65, 2^100, ...
> > > > 
> > > > Me neither, I was more wondering about the common powers of two.
> > > > 
> > > > > I think the suggestion for (2^32)-1:
> > > > > (1LL<32)-1 is good, or should we make things more complicated and 
> > > > > suggest Int max macro?
> > > > 
> > > > I feel like this is somewhat clang-tidy territory more than the 
> > > > compiler properly, including the 2^64 - 1 case, because it is likely to 
> > > > be very uncommon due to how specific it is. However, given that this 
> > > > only triggers on xor and only with integer literals, it shouldn't cause 
> > > > too much of a compilation slow-down in general to do it here.
> > > > 
> > > > I tend to err on the side of consistency, so my feeling is that if we 
> > > > want the 64 case to suggest ULLONG, we'd want the other cases to behave 
> > > > similarly. Alternatively, rather than handling this specific issue in 
> > > > the compiler, handle it in a `bugprone` clang-tidy check where we can 
> > > > also give the user more control over how they want to correct their 
> > > > mistake (e.g., `std::numeric_limits<long>::max()` vs `LONG_MAX` vs 
> > > > `~0L`).
> > > @jfb ?
> > (There were no concerns about slowdown in the “base” patch).
> > 
> > Maybe I should just revert it..
> I don't really care. My original point was that any suggested fix should be 
> correct, and `(1LL << 64) - 1` wasn't.
> I don't really care. My original point was that any suggested fix should be 
> correct, and (1LL << 64) - 1 wasn't.

Agreed with this. We can just leave the fix off in the circumstances it's not 
correct while still warning that the original code is suspicious.


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