This function can now track null pointer through simple pointer arithmetic,
such as '*&*(p + 2)' => 'p' and so on, displaying intermediate diagnostic pieces
for the user to understand where the null pointer is coming from.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37025
llvm-svn: 314290
This API is used by checkers (and other entities) in order to track where does
a value originate from, by jumping from an expression value of which is equal
to that value to the expression from which this value has "appeared". For
example, it may be an lvalue from which the rvalue was loaded, or a function
call from which the dereferenced pointer was returned.
The function now avoids incorrectly unwrapping implicit lvalue-to-rvalue casts,
which caused crashes and incorrect intermediate diagnostic pieces. It also no
longer relies on how the expression is written when guessing what it means.
Fixes pr34373 and pr34731.
rdar://problem/33594502
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37023
llvm-svn: 314287
Artem Dergachev