This change adds a new diagnostic for mismatching address spaces
to be used for C++ casts (only enabled in C style cast for now,
the rest will follow!).
The change extends C-style cast rules to account for address spaces.
It also adds a separate function for address space cast checking that
can be used to map from a separate address space cast operator
addrspace_cast (to be added as a follow up patch).
Note, that after this change clang will no longer allows arbitrary
address space conversions in reinterpret_casts because they can lead
to accidental errors. The implicit safe conversions would still be
allowed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58346
llvm-svn: 355609
dealing with address-space- and GC-qualified pointers. Previously,
these qualifiers were being treated just like cvr-qualifiers (in some
cases) or were completely ignored, leading to uneven behavior. For
example, const_cast would allow conversion between pointers to
different address spaces.
The new semantics are fairly simple: reinterpret_cast can be used to
explicitly cast between pointers to different address spaces
(including adding/removing addresss spaces), while
static_cast/dynamic_cast/const_cast do not tolerate any changes in the
address space. C-style casts can add/remove/change address spaces
through the reinterpret_cast mechanism. Other non-CVR qualifiers
(e.g., Objective-C GC qualifiers) work similarly.
As part of this change, I tweaked the "casts away constness"
diagnostic to use the term "casts away qualifiers". The term
"constness" actually comes from the C++ standard, despite the fact
that removing "volatile" also falls under that category. In Clang, we
also have restrict, address spaces, ObjC GC attributes, etc., so the
more general "qualifiers" is clearer.
llvm-svn: 129583
Anastasia Stulova