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[analyzer] Suppress "this" pointer escape during construction.
Pointer escape event notifies checkers that a pointer can no longer be reliably tracked by the analyzer. For example, if a pointer is passed into a function that has no body available, or written into a global, MallocChecker would no longer report memory leaks for such pointer. In case of operator new() under -analyzer-config c++-allocator-inlining=true, MallocChecker would start tracking the pointer allocated by operator new() only to immediately meet a pointer escape event notifying the checker that the pointer has escaped into a constructor (assuming that the body of the constructor is not available) and immediately stop tracking it. Even though it is theoretically possible for such constructor to put "this" into a global container that would later be freed, we prefer to preserve the old behavior of MallocChecker, i.e. a memory leak warning, in order to be able to find any memory leaks in C++ at all. In fact, c++-allocator-inlining *reduces* the amount of false positives coming from this-pointers escaping in constructors, because it'd be able to inline constructors in some cases. With other checkers working similarly, we simply suppress the escape event for this-value of the constructor, regardless of analyzer options. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D41797 rdar://problem/12180598 llvm-svn: 322795
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