c++: Quash -Wdangling-reference for member operator* [PR107488]

-Wdangling-reference complains here:

  std::vector<int> v = ...;
  std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
  while (it != v.end()) {
    const int &r = *it++; // warning
  }

because it sees a call to
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<const int*, std::vector<int> >::operator*
which returns a reference and its argument is a TARGET_EXPR representing
the result of
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<const int*, std::vector<int> >::operator++
But 'r' above refers to one of the int elements of the vector 'v', not
to a temporary object.  Therefore the warning is a false positive.

I suppose code like the above is relatively common (the warning broke
cppunit-1.15.1 and a few other projects), so presumably it makes sense
to suppress the warning when it comes to member operator*.  In this case
it's defined as

      reference
      operator*() const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT
      { return *_M_current; }

and I'm guessing a lot of member operator* are like that, at least when
it comes to iterators.  I've looked at _Fwd_list_iterator,
_Fwd_list_const_iterator, __shared_ptr_access, _Deque_iterator,
istream_iterator, etc, and they're all like that, so adding #pragmas
would be quite tedious.  :/

	PR c++/107488

gcc/cp/ChangeLog:

	* call.cc (do_warn_dangling_reference): Quash -Wdangling-reference
	for member operator*.

gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference5.C: New test.

diff --git a/gcc/cp/call.cc b/gcc/cp/call.cc
index c7c7a122045cf868c526320ba3a3534e37839529..2c0fa37f53a969742e839b0ff1111df9722a48e7 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/cp/call.cc
+++ b/gcc/cp/call.cc
@@ -13467,7 +13467,17 @@ do_warn_dangling_reference (tree expr)
               can be e.g.
                 const int& z = std::min({1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7});
               which doesn't dangle: std::min here returns an int.  */
-           || !TYPE_REF_OBJ_P (TREE_TYPE (TREE_TYPE (fndecl))))
+           || !TYPE_REF_OBJ_P (TREE_TYPE (TREE_TYPE (fndecl)))
+           /* Don't emit a false positive for:
+               std::vector<int> v = ...;
+               std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
+               const int &r = *it++;
+              because R refers to one of the int elements of V, not to
+              a temporary object.  Member operator* may return a reference
+              but probably not to one of its arguments.  */
+           || (DECL_NONSTATIC_MEMBER_FUNCTION_P (fndecl)
+               && DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_P (fndecl)
+               && DECL_OVERLOADED_OPERATOR_IS (fndecl, INDIRECT_REF)))
          return NULL_TREE;
 
        /* Here we're looking to see if any of the arguments is a temporary

diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference5.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference5.C
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..59b5538
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/warn/Wdangling-reference5.C
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// PR c++/107488
+// { dg-do compile }
+// { dg-options "-Wdangling-reference" }
+
+#include <vector>
+
+int
+do_sum (std::vector<int>& v)
+{
+  int sum = 0;
+
+  std::vector<int>::const_iterator it = v.begin();
+  while (it != v.end())
+    {
+      // R refers to one of the int elements of V, not to a temporary
+      // object, so no dangling reference here.
+      const int &r = *it++; // { dg-bogus "dangling reference" }
+      sum += r;
+    }
+
+  return sum;
+}