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c++: Improve constexpr error for dangling local variables
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Currently, when typeck discovers that a return statement will refer to a
local variable it rewrites to return a null pointer. This causes the
error messages for using the return value in a constant expression to be
unhelpful, especially for reference return values.

This patch removes this "optimisation". Relying on this raises a warning
by default and causes UB anyway, so there should be no issue in doing
so. We also suppress additional warnings from later passes that detect
this as a dangling pointer, since we've already indicated this anyway.

gcc/cp/ChangeLog:

	* semantics.cc (finish_return_stmt): Suppress dangling pointer
        reporting on return statement if already reported.
	* typeck.cc (check_return_expr): Don't set return expression to
        zero for dangling addresses.

gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:

        * g++.dg/cpp1y/constexpr-lifetime5.C: Test reported message is
        correct.
	* g++.dg/warn/Wreturn-local-addr-6.C: Remove check for return
        value optimisation.

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Shead <nathanieloshead@gmail.com>
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wreien authored and ouuleilei-bot committed Mar 28, 2023
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion gcc/cp/semantics.cc
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Expand Up @@ -1246,7 +1246,10 @@ finish_return_stmt (tree expr)

r = build_stmt (input_location, RETURN_EXPR, expr);
if (no_warning)
suppress_warning (r, OPT_Wreturn_type);
{
suppress_warning (r, OPT_Wreturn_type);
suppress_warning (r, OPT_Wdangling_pointer_);
}
r = maybe_cleanup_point_expr_void (r);
r = add_stmt (r);

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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions gcc/cp/typeck.cc
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Expand Up @@ -11232,8 +11232,9 @@ check_return_expr (tree retval, bool *no_warning)
else if (!processing_template_decl
&& maybe_warn_about_returning_address_of_local (retval, loc)
&& INDIRECT_TYPE_P (valtype))
retval = build2 (COMPOUND_EXPR, TREE_TYPE (retval), retval,
build_zero_cst (TREE_TYPE (retval)));
/* Suppress the Wdangling-pointer warning in the return statement
that would otherwise occur. */
*no_warning = true;
}

if (processing_template_decl)
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/cpp1y/constexpr-lifetime5.C
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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
// { dg-do compile { target c++14 } }
// { dg-options "-Wno-return-local-addr" }

constexpr const int& id(int x) { return x; }
constexpr const int& id(int x) { return x; } // { dg-message "note: declared here" }

constexpr bool test() {
const int& y = id(3);
return y == 3;
}

constexpr bool x = test(); // { dg-error "" }
constexpr bool x = test(); // { dg-error "accessing object outside its lifetime" }
3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wreturn-local-addr-6.C
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Expand Up @@ -24,6 +24,3 @@ return_addr_local_as_intref (void)

return (const intptr_t&)a; // { dg-warning "\\\[-Wreturn-local-addr]" } */
}

/* Verify that the return value has been replaced with zero:
{ dg-final { scan-tree-dump-times "return 0;" 2 "optimized" } } */

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