ymandel added inline comments.

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Comment at: 
clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/performance/UnnecessaryCopyInitialization.cpp:98-101
   auto Matches =
       match(findAll(declStmt(has(varDecl(equalsNode(&InitializingVar))))
                         .bind("declStmt")),
+            Body, Context);
----------------
flx wrote:
> ymandel wrote:
> > flx wrote:
> > > ymandel wrote:
> > > > Consider inspecting the `DeclContext`s instead, which should be much 
> > > > more efficient than searching the entire block.  Pass the 
> > > > `FunctionDecl` as an argument instead of `Body`, since it is a 
> > > > `DeclContext`.  e.g. `const DeclContext &Fun`
> > > > 
> > > > Then, either
> > > > 1. Call `Fun.containsDecl(InitializingVar)`, or
> > > > 2. Search through the contexts yourself; something like:
> > > > ```
> > > > DeclContext* DC = InitializingVar->getDeclContext(); 
> > > > while (DC != nullptr && DC != &Fun)
> > > >   DC = DC->getLexicalParent();
> > > > if (DC == nullptr)
> > > >   // The reference or pointer is not initialized anywhere witin the 
> > > > function. We
> > > >   // assume its pointee is not modified then.
> > > >   return true;
> > > > ```
> > > Are #1 and #2 equivalent? From the implementation and comment I cannot 
> > > tell whether #1 would cover cases where the variable is not declared 
> > > directly in the function, but in child block:
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > void Fun() {
> > >  {
> > >    var i;
> > >    {
> > >      i.usedHere();
> > >    }  
> > >  } 
> > > }
> > > ```
> > > 
> > > I'm also reading this as an optimization to more quickly determine 
> > > whether we can stop here. We still need to find the matches for the next 
> > > steps, but I  think I could then limit matching to the DeclContext I 
> > > found here. Is this correct? For this I would actually need the 
> > > DeclContext result from #2.
> > A. I think you're right that #2 is more suited to what you need. I wasn't 
> > sure, so included both. Agreed that the comments are ambiguous.
> > B. yes, this is just an optimization. it may be premature for that matter; 
> > just that match can be expensive and this seemed a more direct expression 
> > of the algorithm.
> I was not able to pass the (possibly more narrow) DeclContext to the match 
> function as scope since match does not support DeclContexts.
> 
> I implemented  isDeclaredInFunction() which iterates through the decl 
> contexts as you suggested. I'm not sure though whether we should start with 
> VarDecl::getDeclContext() or VarDecl::getLexicalDeclContext()?
> 
> While looking at VarDecl::getLexicalDeclContext() I discovered is VarDecl has 
> the following method:
> 
> ```
>   /// Returns true for local variable declarations other than parameters.     
>                                                
>   /// Note that this includes static variables inside of functions. It also   
>                                                
>   /// includes variables inside blocks.                                       
>                                                
>   ///                                                                         
>                                                
>   ///   void foo() { int x; static int y; extern int z; }                     
>                                                
>   bool isLocalVarDecl() const;
> ```
> 
> I think this is exactly what we'd want here. What do you think?
> 
You mean instead of `isDeclaredInFunction`?  If so -- yes, that seems right.  
But, if so, are you still planning to bind "declStmt" with the `match`, or will 
you replace that with something more direct?


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