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Commit b5b3d436 authored by Roman Lebedev's avatar Roman Lebedev
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[Sema] -Wtautological-constant-compare is too good. Cripple it.

Summary:
The diagnostic was mostly introduced in D38101 by me, as a reaction to wasting a lot of time, see [[ https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20171009/206427.html | mail ]].
However, the diagnostic is pretty dumb. While it works with no false-positives,
there are some questionable cases that are diagnosed when one would argue that they should not be.

The common complaint is that it diagnoses the comparisons between an `int` and
`long` when compiling for a 32-bit target as tautological, but not when
compiling for 64-bit targets. The underlying problem is obvious: data model.
In most cases, 64-bit target is `LP64` (`int` is 32-bit, `long` and pointer are
64-bit), and the 32-bit target is `ILP32` (`int`, `long`, and pointer are 32-bit).

I.e. the common pattern is: (pseudocode)
```
#include <limits>
#include <cstdint>
int main() {
  using T1 = long;
  using T2 = int;

  T1 r;
  if (r < std::numeric_limits<T2>::min()) {}
  if (r > std::numeric_limits<T2>::max()) {}
}
```
As an example, D39149 was trying to fix this diagnostic in libc++, and it was not well-received.

This *could* be "fixed", by changing the diagnostics logic to something like
`if the types of the values being compared are different, but are of the same size, then do diagnose`,
and i even attempted to do so in D39462, but as @rjmccall rightfully commented,
that implementation is incomplete to say the least.

So to stop causing trouble, and avoid contaminating upcoming release, lets do this workaround:
* move these three diags (`warn_unsigned_always_true_comparison`, `warn_unsigned_enum_always_true_comparison`, `warn_tautological_constant_compare`) into it's own `-Wtautological-constant-in-range-compare`
* Disable them by default
* Make them part of `-Wextra`
* Additionally, give `warn_tautological_constant_compare` it's own flag `-Wtautological-type-limit-compare`.
  I'm not happy about that name, but i can't come up with anything better.

This way all three of them can be enabled/disabled either altogether, or one-by-one.

Reviewers: aaron.ballman, rsmith, smeenai, rjmccall, rnk, mclow.lists, dim

Reviewed By: aaron.ballman, rsmith, dim

Subscribers: thakis, compnerd, mehdi_amini, dim, hans, cfe-commits, rjmccall

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41512

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@321691 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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