[PATCH v2] [gdbsupport] Fix -Wenum-constexpr-conversion in enum-flags.h
Carlos Galvez
carlosgalvezp@gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 19:36:24 GMT 2024
This fixes PR 31331:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31331
Currently, enum-flags.h is suppressing the warning
-Wenum-constexpr-conversion coming from recent versions of Clang.
This warning is intended to be made a compiler error
(non-downgradeable) in future versions of Clang:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/59036
The rationale is that casting a value of an integral type into an
enumeration is Undefined Behavior if the value does not fit in the
range of values of the enum:
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_defects.html#1766
Undefined Behavior is not allowed in constant expressions, leading to
an ill-formed program.
In this case, in enum-flags.h, we are casting the value -1 to an enum
of a positive range only, which is UB as per the Standard and thus not
allowed in a constexpr context.
The purpose of doing this instead of using std::underlying_type is
because, for C-style enums, std::underlying_type typically returns
"unsigned int". However, when operating with it arithmetically, the
enum is promoted to *signed* int, which is what we want to avoid.
This patch solves this issue as follows:
* Use std::underlying_type and remove the custom enum_underlying_type.
* Ensure that operator~ is called always on an unsigned integer. We do
this by casting the input enum into std::size_t, which can fit any
unsigned integer. We have the guarantee that the cast is safe,
because we have checked that the underlying type is unsigned. If the
enum had negative values, the underlying type would be signed.
This solves the issue with C-style enums, but also solves a hidden
issue: enums with underlying type of std::uint8_t or std::uint16_t are
*also* promoted to signed int. Now they are all explicitly casted
to the largest unsigned int type and operator~ is safe to use.
* There is one more thing that needs fix. Currently, operator~ is
implemented as follows:
return (enum_type) ~underlying(e);
After applying ~underlying(e), the result is a very large value,
which we then cast to "enum_type". This cast is Undefined Behavior
if the large value does not fit in the range of the enum. For
C++ enums (scoped and/or with explicit underlying type), the range
of the enum is the entire range of the underlying type, so the cast
is safe. However, for C-style enums, the range is the smallest
bit-field that can hold all the values of the enumeration. So the
range is a lot smaller and casting a large value to the enum would
invoke Undefined Behavior.
To solve this problem, we create a new trait
EnumHasFixedUnderlyingType, to ensure operator~ may only be called
on C++-style enums. This behavior is roughly the same as what we
had on trunk, but relying on different properties of the enums.
* Once this is implemented, the following tests fail to compile:
CHECK_VALID (true, int, true ? EF () : EF2 ())
This is because it expects the enums to be promoted to signed int,
instead of unsigned int (which is the true underlying type).
I propose to remove these tests altogether, because:
- The comment nearby say they are not very important.
- Comparing 2 enums of different type like that is strange, relies
on integer promotions and thus hurts readability. As per comments
in the related PR, we likely don't want this type of code in gdb
code anyway, so there's no point in testing it.
- Most importantly, this type of comparison will be ill-formed in
C++26 for regular enums, so enum_flags does not need to emulate
that.
Since this is the only place where the warning was suppressed, remove
also the corresponding macro in include/diagnostics.h.
The change has been tested by running the entire gdb test suite
(make check) and comparing the results (testsuite/gdb.sum) against
trunk. No noticeable differences have been observed.
---
gdb/unittests/enum-flags-selftests.c | 27 -------
gdbsupport/enum-flags.h | 104 ++++++++++++++++++---------
include/diagnostics.h | 5 --
3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/unittests/enum-flags-selftests.c b/gdb/unittests/enum-flags-selftests.c
index b55d8c31406..02563e568d1 100644
--- a/gdb/unittests/enum-flags-selftests.c
+++ b/gdb/unittests/enum-flags-selftests.c
@@ -233,33 +233,6 @@ CHECK_VALID (true, UEF, ~UEF ())
CHECK_VALID (true, EF, true ? EF () : RE ())
CHECK_VALID (true, EF, true ? RE () : EF ())
-/* These are valid, but it's not a big deal since you won't be able to
- assign the resulting integer to an enum or an enum_flags without a
- cast.
-
- The latter two tests are disabled on older GCCs because they
- incorrectly fail with gcc 4.8 and 4.9 at least. Running the test
- outside a SFINAE context shows:
-
- invalid user-defined conversion from ‘EF’ to ‘RE2’
-
- They've been confirmed to compile/pass with gcc 5.3, gcc 7.1 and
- clang 3.7. */
-
-CHECK_VALID (true, int, true ? EF () : EF2 ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, int, true ? EF2 () : EF ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, int, true ? EF () : RE2 ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, int, true ? RE2 () : EF ())
-
-/* Same, but with an unsigned enum. */
-
-typedef unsigned int uns;
-
-CHECK_VALID (true, uns, true ? EF () : UEF ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, uns, true ? UEF () : EF ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, uns, true ? EF () : URE ())
-CHECK_VALID (true, uns, true ? URE () : EF ())
-
/* Unfortunately this can't work due to the way C++ computes the
return type of the ternary conditional operator. int isn't
implicitly convertible to the raw enum type, so the type of the
diff --git a/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h b/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
index 50780043477..acec2030fca 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
+++ b/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
@@ -75,30 +75,6 @@
namespace. The compiler finds the corresponding
is_enum_flags_enum_type function via ADL. */
-/* Note that std::underlying_type<enum_type> is not what we want here,
- since that returns unsigned int even when the enum decays to signed
- int. */
-template<int size, bool sign> class integer_for_size { typedef void type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<1, 0> { typedef uint8_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<2, 0> { typedef uint16_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<4, 0> { typedef uint32_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<8, 0> { typedef uint64_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<1, 1> { typedef int8_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<2, 1> { typedef int16_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<4, 1> { typedef int32_t type; };
-template<> struct integer_for_size<8, 1> { typedef int64_t type; };
-
-template<typename T>
-struct enum_underlying_type
-{
- DIAGNOSTIC_PUSH
- DIAGNOSTIC_IGNORE_ENUM_CONSTEXPR_CONVERSION
- typedef typename
- integer_for_size<sizeof (T), static_cast<bool>(T (-1) < T (0))>::type
- type;
- DIAGNOSTIC_POP
-};
-
namespace enum_flags_detail
{
@@ -119,10 +95,62 @@ struct zero_type;
/* gdb::Requires trait helpers. */
template <typename enum_type>
using EnumIsUnsigned
- = std::is_unsigned<typename enum_underlying_type<enum_type>::type>;
+ = std::is_unsigned<typename std::underlying_type<enum_type>::type>;
+
+/* Helper to detect whether an enum has a fixed underlying type. This can be
+ achieved by using a scoped enum (in which case the type is "int") or
+ an explicit underlying type. C-style enums that are unscoped or do not
+ have an explicit underlying type have an implementation-defined underlying
+ type.
+
+ https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4659/dcl.enum#5
+
+ We need this trait in order to ensure that operator~ below does NOT
+ operate on old-style enums. This is because we apply operator~ on
+ the value and then cast the result to the enum_type. This is however
+ Undefined Behavior if the result does not fit in the range of possible
+ values for the enum. For enums with fixed underlying type, the entire
+ range of the integer is available. However, for old-style enums, the range
+ is only the smallest bit-field that can hold all the values of the
+ enumeration, typically much smaller than the underlying integer:
+
+ https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4659/expr.static.cast#10
+ https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4659/dcl.enum#8
+
+ To implement this, we leverage the fact that, since C++17, enums with
+ fixed underlying type can be list-initialized from an integer:
+ https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4659/dcl.init.list#3.7
+
+ Old-style enums cannot be initialized like that, leading to ill-formed
+ code.
+
+ We then use this together with SFINAE to create the desired trait.
+
+*/
+// Primary template
+template <typename enum_type, typename = void>
+struct EnumHasFixedUnderlyingType : std::false_type
+{
+ static_assert(std::is_enum<enum_type>::value);
+};
+
+// Specialization that is active only if enum_type can be list-initialized
+// from an integer (0). Only enums with fixed underlying type satisfy this
+// property in C++17.
+template <typename enum_type>
+struct EnumHasFixedUnderlyingType<enum_type, std::void_t<decltype(enum_type{0})>> : std::true_type
+{
+ static_assert(std::is_enum<enum_type>::value);
+};
+
+template <typename enum_type>
+using EnumIsSafeForBitwiseComplement = std::conjunction<
+ EnumIsUnsigned<enum_type>,
+ EnumHasFixedUnderlyingType<enum_type>
+>;
+
template <typename enum_type>
-using EnumIsSigned
- = std::is_signed<typename enum_underlying_type<enum_type>::type>;
+using EnumIsUnsafeForBitwiseComplement = std::negation<EnumIsSafeForBitwiseComplement<enum_type>>;
}
@@ -131,7 +159,7 @@ class enum_flags
{
public:
typedef E enum_type;
- typedef typename enum_underlying_type<enum_type>::type underlying_type;
+ typedef typename std::underlying_type<enum_type>::type underlying_type;
/* For to_string. Maps one enumerator of E to a string. */
struct string_mapping
@@ -394,33 +422,41 @@ ENUM_FLAGS_GEN_COMP (operator!=, !=)
template <typename enum_type,
typename = is_enum_flags_enum_type_t<enum_type>,
typename
- = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsUnsigned<enum_type>>>
+ = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsSafeForBitwiseComplement<enum_type>>>
constexpr enum_type
operator~ (enum_type e)
{
using underlying = typename enum_flags<enum_type>::underlying_type;
- return (enum_type) ~underlying (e);
+ // Cast to std::size_t first, to prevent integer promotions from
+ // enums with fixed underlying type std::uint8_t or std::uint16_t
+ // to signed int.
+ // This ensures we apply the bitwise complement on an unsigned type.
+ return (enum_type)(underlying) ~std::size_t (e);
}
template <typename enum_type,
typename = is_enum_flags_enum_type_t<enum_type>,
- typename = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsSigned<enum_type>>>
+ typename = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsUnsafeForBitwiseComplement<enum_type>>>
constexpr void operator~ (enum_type e) = delete;
template <typename enum_type,
typename = is_enum_flags_enum_type_t<enum_type>,
typename
- = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsUnsigned<enum_type>>>
+ = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsSafeForBitwiseComplement<enum_type>>>
constexpr enum_flags<enum_type>
operator~ (enum_flags<enum_type> e)
{
using underlying = typename enum_flags<enum_type>::underlying_type;
- return (enum_type) ~underlying (e);
+ // Cast to std::size_t first, to prevent integer promotions from
+ // enums with fixed underlying type std::uint8_t or std::uint16_t
+ // to signed int.
+ // This ensures we apply the bitwise complement on an unsigned type.
+ return (enum_type)(underlying) ~std::size_t (e);
}
template <typename enum_type,
typename = is_enum_flags_enum_type_t<enum_type>,
- typename = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsSigned<enum_type>>>
+ typename = gdb::Requires<enum_flags_detail::EnumIsUnsafeForBitwiseComplement<enum_type>>>
constexpr void operator~ (enum_flags<enum_type> e) = delete;
/* Delete operator<< and operator>>. */
diff --git a/include/diagnostics.h b/include/diagnostics.h
index 97e30ab807f..14575e20e27 100644
--- a/include/diagnostics.h
+++ b/include/diagnostics.h
@@ -76,11 +76,6 @@
# define DIAGNOSTIC_ERROR_SWITCH \
DIAGNOSTIC_ERROR ("-Wswitch")
-# if __has_warning ("-Wenum-constexpr-conversion")
-# define DIAGNOSTIC_IGNORE_ENUM_CONSTEXPR_CONVERSION \
- DIAGNOSTIC_IGNORE ("-Wenum-constexpr-conversion")
-# endif
-
#elif defined (__GNUC__) /* GCC */
# define DIAGNOSTIC_IGNORE_DEPRECATED_DECLARATIONS \
--
2.34.1
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