c++: Quash -Wdangling-reference for member operator* [PR107488]

-Wdangling-reference complains here:

  std::vector<int> v = ...;
  std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
  while (it != v.end()) {
    const int &r = *it++; // warning
  }

because it sees a call to
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<const int*, std::vector<int> >::operator*
which returns a reference and its argument is a TARGET_EXPR representing
the result of
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<const int*, std::vector<int> >::operator++
But 'r' above refers to one of the int elements of the vector 'v', not
to a temporary object.  Therefore the warning is a false positive.

I suppose code like the above is relatively common (the warning broke
cppunit-1.15.1 and a few other projects), so presumably it makes sense
to suppress the warning when it comes to member operator*.  In this case
it's defined as

      reference
      operator*() const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
      { return *_M_current; }

and I'm guessing a lot of member operator* are like that, at least when
it comes to iterators.  I've looked at _Fwd_list_iterator,
_Fwd_list_const_iterator, __shared_ptr_access, _Deque_iterator,
istream_iterator, etc, and they're all like that, so adding #pragmas
would be quite tedious.  :/

	PR c++/107488

gcc/cp/ChangeLog:

	* call.cc (do_warn_dangling_reference): Quash -Wdangling-reference
	for member operator*.

gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference5.C: New test.
This commit is contained in:
Marek Polacek 2022-11-01 17:05:52 -04:00
parent 40c34beef6
commit 32a06ce38a
2 changed files with 33 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -13467,7 +13467,17 @@ do_warn_dangling_reference (tree expr)
can be e.g.
const int& z = std::min({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7});
which doesn't dangle: std::min here returns an int. */
|| !TYPE_REF_OBJ_P (TREE_TYPE (TREE_TYPE (fndecl))))
|| !TYPE_REF_OBJ_P (TREE_TYPE (TREE_TYPE (fndecl)))
/* Don't emit a false positive for:
std::vector<int> v = ...;
std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
const int &r = *it++;
because R refers to one of the int elements of V, not to
a temporary object. Member operator* may return a reference
but probably not to one of its arguments. */
|| (DECL_NONSTATIC_MEMBER_FUNCTION_P (fndecl)
&& DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P (fndecl)
&& DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_IS (fndecl, INDIRECT_REF)))
return NULL_TREE;
/* Here we're looking to see if any of the arguments is a temporary

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@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
// PR c++/107488
// { dg-do compile }
// { dg-options "-Wdangling-reference" }
#include <vector>
int
do_sum (std::vector<int>& v)
{
int sum = 0;
std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
while (it != v.end())
{
// R refers to one of the int elements of V, not to a temporary
// object, so no dangling reference here.
const int &r = *it++; // { dg-bogus "dangling reference" }
sum += r;
}
return sum;
}