Add missing classof().

Somewhat troublingly, without this implemented, the check inside
isa_impl<> would silently use the parent's `classof()` when determining
whether it was okay to downcast from the parent to the child!

Bug analysis:

A build failure after removing the parent's `classof()` initially
alerted me to the bug, after which a little bit of thinking and reading
of the code identified the root cause.

The compiler could be made to prevent this bug from happening if there
were a way to ensure that in the code

    template <typename To, typename From, typename Enabler = void>
    struct isa_impl {
      static inline bool doit(const From &Val) {
        return To::classof(&Val);
      }
    };

that `To::classof` is actually inside the class `To`, and not in a base
class. I am not aware of a way to check this in C++. If there is a means
to perform that check, please bring it up on the list and this will be
fixed.

There is a high likelihood that there are other instances of this same
bug in the codebase.

llvm-svn: 165769
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Sean Silva 2012-10-11 23:31:18 +00:00
parent d7802ad8a5
commit 886e7f8cbb
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@ -399,6 +399,10 @@ public:
virtual void flattenLocations() { Pos.flatten(); }
virtual void Profile(llvm::FoldingSetNodeID &ID) const;
static bool classof(const PathDiagnosticPiece *P) {
return P->getKind() == Event || P->getKind() == Macro;
}
};
/// \brief Interface for classes constructing Stack hints.