On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:07:59PM -0500, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On 1/18/23 12:52, Marek Polacek wrote:
> > Here, -Wdangling-reference triggers where it probably shouldn't, causing
> > some grief. The code in question uses a reference wrapper with a member
> > function returning a reference to a subobject of a non-temporary object:
> >
> > const Plane & meta = fm.planes().inner();
> >
> > I've tried a few approaches, e.g., checking that the member function's
> > return type is the same as the type of the enclosing class (which is
> > the case for member functions returning *this), but that then breaks
> > Wdangling-reference4.C with std::optional<std::string>.
> >
> > So I figured that perhaps we want to look at the object we're invoking
> > the member function(s) on and see if that is a temporary, as in, don't
> > warn about
> >
> > const Plane & meta = fm.planes().inner();
> >
> > but do warn about
> >
> > const Plane & meta = FrameMetadata().planes().inner();
> >
> > It's ugly, but better than asking users to add #pragmas into their code.
>
> Hmm, that doesn't seem right; the former is only OK because Ref is in fact a
> reference-like type. If planes() returned a class that held data, we would
> want to warn.
Sure, it's always some kind of tradeoff with warnings :/.
> In this case, we might recognize the reference-like class because it has a
> reference member and a constructor taking the same reference type.
That occurred to me too, but then I found out that std::reference_wrapper
actually uses T*, not T&, as you say. But here's a patch to do that
(I hope).
> That wouldn't help with std::reference_wrapper or std::ref_view because they
> have pointer members instead of references, but perhaps loosening the check
> to include that case would make sense?
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by loosening the check. I could
hardcode std::reference_wrapper and std::ref_view but I don't think that's
what you meant. Surely I cannot _not_ warn for any class that contains a
T*.
Here's the patch so that we have some actual code to discuss... Thanks.
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Here, -Wdangling-reference triggers where it probably shouldn't, causing
some grief. The code in question uses a reference wrapper with a member
function returning a reference to a subobject of a non-temporary object:
const Plane & meta = fm.planes().inner();
I've tried a few approaches, e.g., checking that the member function's
return type is the same as the type of the enclosing class (which is
the case for member functions returning *this), but that then breaks
Wdangling-reference4.C with std::optional<std::string>.
Perhaps we want to look at the member function's enclosing class
to see if it's a reference wrapper class (meaning, has a reference
member and a constructor taking the same reference type) and don't
warn if so, supposing that the member function returns a reference
to a non-temporary object.
It's ugly, but better than asking users to add #pragmas into their code.
PR c++/107532
gcc/cp/ChangeLog:
* call.cc (do_warn_dangling_reference): Don't warn when the
member function comes from a reference wrapper class.
gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C: New test.
---
gcc/cp/call.cc | 32 ++++++++
.../g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C | 77 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C
diff --git a/gcc/cp/call.cc b/gcc/cp/call.cc
index 0780b5840a3..b0670a21240 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/call.cc
+++ b/gcc/cp/call.cc
@@ -13832,6 +13832,38 @@ do_warn_dangling_reference (tree expr)
if (!(TYPE_REF_OBJ_P (rettype) || std_pair_ref_ref_p (rettype)))
return NULL_TREE;
+ /* An attempt to reduce the number of -Wdangling-reference
+ false positives concerning reference wrappers (c++/107532).
+ If the enclosing class is a reference-like class, that is, has
+ a reference member and a constructor taking the same reference type,
+ we suppose that the member function is returning a reference
+ to a non-temporary object. */
+ if (DECL_NONSTATIC_MEMBER_FUNCTION_P (fndecl)
+ && !DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P (fndecl))
+ {
+ tree ctx = CP_DECL_CONTEXT (fndecl);
+ for (tree fields = TYPE_FIELDS (ctx);
+ fields;
+ fields = DECL_CHAIN (fields))
+ {
+ if (TREE_CODE (fields) != FIELD_DECL || DECL_ARTIFICIAL
(fields))
+ continue;
+ tree type = TREE_TYPE (fields);
+ if (!TYPE_REF_P (type))
+ continue;
+ /* OK, the field is a reference member. Do we have
+ a constructor taking its type? */
+ for (tree fn : ovl_range (CLASSTYPE_CONSTRUCTORS (ctx)))
+ {
+ tree args = FUNCTION_FIRST_USER_PARMTYPE (fn);
+ if (args
+ && same_type_p (TREE_VALUE (args), type)
+ && TREE_CHAIN (args) == void_list_node)
+ return NULL_TREE;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
/* Here we're looking to see if any of the arguments is a temporary
initializing a reference parameter. */
for (int i = 0; i < call_expr_nargs (expr); ++i)
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C
b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4d585891fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference8.C
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+// PR c++/107532
+// { dg-do compile { target c++11 } }
+// { dg-options "-Wdangling-reference" }
+
+struct Plane { unsigned int bytesused; };
+
+// Passes a reference through. Does not change lifetime.
+template <typename T>
+struct Ref {
+ const T& i_;
+ Ref(const T & i) : i_(i) {}
+ const T & inner();
+};
+
+struct FrameMetadata {
+ Ref<const Plane> planes() const { return p_; }
+
+ Plane p_;
+};
+
+void bar(const Plane & meta);
+void foo(const FrameMetadata & fm)
+{
+ const Plane & meta = fm.planes().inner();
+ bar(meta);
+ const Plane & meta2 = FrameMetadata().planes().inner();
+ bar(meta2);
+}
+
+struct S {
+ const S& self () { return *this; }
+} s;
+
+const S& r1 = s.self();
+const S& r2 = S().self(); // { dg-warning "dangling reference" }
+
+struct D {
+};
+
+struct C {
+ D d;
+ Ref<const D> get() const { return d; }
+};
+
+struct B {
+ C c;
+ const C& get() const { return c; }
+ B();
+};
+
+struct A {
+ B b;
+ const B& get() const { return b; }
+};
+
+void
+g (const A& a)
+{
+ const auto& d1 = a.get().get().get().inner();
+ (void) d1;
+ const auto& d2 = A().get().get().get().inner();
+ (void) d2;
+ const auto& d3 = A().b.get().get().inner();
+ (void) d3;
+ const auto& d4 = a.b.get().get().inner();
+ (void) d4;
+ const auto& d5 = a.b.c.get().inner();
+ (void) d5;
+ const auto& d6 = A().b.c.get().inner();
+ (void) d6;
+ Plane p;
+ Ref<Plane> r(p);
+ const auto& d7 = r.inner();
+ (void) d7;
+ const auto& d8 = Ref<Plane>(p).inner();
+ (void) d8;
+}
base-commit: 8e2c6e7b426b6c9c13076208b2e176d4aa1432f1
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