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Comment at: clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/misc/InitLocalVariablesCheck.cpp:21
+  Finder->addMatcher(
+      varDecl(unless(hasInitializer(anything()))).bind("vardecl"), this);
+}
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alexfh wrote:
> jpakkane wrote:
> > alexfh wrote:
> > > jpakkane wrote:
> > > > alexfh wrote:
> > > > > jpakkane wrote:
> > > > > > alexfh wrote:
> > > > > > > I believe, this should skip matches within template 
> > > > > > > instantiations. Consider this code:
> > > > > > > ```
> > > > > > > template<typename T>
> > > > > > > void f(T) { T t; }
> > > > > > > void g() {
> > > > > > >     f(0);
> > > > > > >     f(0.0);
> > > > > > > }
> > > > > > > ```
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > What will the fix  be?
> > > > > > I tested with the following function:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ```
> > > > > > template<typename T>
> > > > > > void template_test_function() {
> > > > > >   T t;
> > > > > >   int uninitialized;
> > > > > > }
> > > > > > ```
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Currently it warns on the "uninitialized" variable regardless of 
> > > > > > whether the template is instantiated or not. If you call it with an 
> > > > > > int type, it will warn about variable t being uninitialized. If you 
> > > > > > call it with a, say, struct type, there is no warnings. Is this a 
> > > > > > reasonable approach?
> > > > > And what happens, if there are multiple instantiations of the same 
> > > > > template, each of them requiring a different fix? Can you try the 
> > > > > check with my example above (and maybe also add `f("");`inside 
> > > > > `g()`). I believe, the check will produce multiple warnings with 
> > > > > conflicting fixes (and each of them will be wrong, btw).
> > > > Interestingly it does warn about it, but only once, even if you have 
> > > > two different template specializations.
> > > > 
> > > > I tried to suppress this warning when the type being instantiated is a 
> > > > template argument type but no matter what I tried I could not get this 
> > > > to work. Is there a way to get this information from the MatchedDecl 
> > > > object or does one need to do something more complicated like going up 
> > > > the AST until a function definition is found and checking if it is a 
> > > > template specialization (presumably with TemplatedKind)? Any help would 
> > > > be appreciated.
> > > If there are multiple warnings with the same message at the same location 
> > > (clang-tidy/ClangTidyDiagnosticConsumer.cpp:745), they will be 
> > > deduplicated. Thus, a random fix will probably be suggested. The proper 
> > > way to filter out matches in template instantiations is to add 
> > > `unless(isInTemplateInstantiation())` to the matcher.
> > I tried to make this work but I just could not combine statement and 
> > declaration matching in a reliable way. Matching a statement that is not in 
> > a template declaration can be done, as well as matching a declaration 
> > without intial value, but combining those two into one is hard. After 
> > trying many, many things the best I could come up with was this:
> > 
> > ```
> > declStmt(containsDeclaration(0, 
> > varDecl(unless(hasInitializer(anything()))).bind("vardecl"))), this)
> > ```
> > 
> > The problem is that `containsDeclaration` takes an integer denoting how 
> > manyth declaration should be processed. Manually adding matchers for, say, 
> > 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 works and does the right thing but fails if anyone has an 
> > uninitialized variable in the sixth location, things will silently fail.
> > 
> > The weird thing is that if you do the matching this way, you don't need to 
> > filter out things with `unless(isInTemplateInstantiation())`. Maybe 
> > statements are handled differently from declarations?
> I was struggling to understand, why you want to match a statement, but then I 
> figured out that I should have been more precise: while 
> `isInTemplateInstantiation` only works for `Stmt`s, there's a related matcher 
> that works for `Decl`s: `isInstantiated`. See 
> clang/include/clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h:5187. In general, looking into 
> this header can be useful, if you want to find a matcher that you can vaguely 
> describe (e.g. when looking for something related to instantiations, you can 
> search for the relevant substring and find  this and a bunch of other 
> matchers).
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. I hope, the suggestion helps.
Thanks, got it working now.


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Comment at: clang-tools-extra/clang-tidy/misc/InitLocalVariablesCheck.cpp:32
+  StringRef VarName = MatchedDecl->getName();
+  if (VarName.empty() || VarName.front() == '_') {
+    // Some standard library methods such as "be64toh" are implemented
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alexfh wrote:
> jpakkane wrote:
> > alexfh wrote:
> > > Should this just disallow all fixes within macros? Maybe warnings as well.
> > I can change that, seems reasonable. Should it still retain this check, 
> > though? One would imagine there are other ways of getting variables whose 
> > names begin with an underscore.
> I don't know, whether the check for leading underscore will still be 
> valuable. I don't think there's a valid reason why variables with a leading 
> underscore in their names should in general not be initialized.
Underscore check has been removed and macros are properly handled (description 
is in code comments).


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