Szelethus added a comment.

In D135360#3862260 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D135360#3862260>, @martong wrote:

> In D135360#3839890 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D135360#3839890>, @balazske 
> wrote:
>
>> I found some anomalies during development:
>>
>> - If the checker **StdCLibraryFunctions** is added as dependency for 
>> **alpha.unix.Stream** in //checkers.td// I get some "unexplainable" test 
>> failures.
>
> Could you please elaborate? I don't see how to help you with it without 
> seeing more details.

Mind that dependencies also establish the order of callbacks (dependent 
checkers are called after their dependencies).

> When it is ambiguous then I'd check the latest standards of both POSIX and C. 
> If it is still doubtful then I'd vote for the C standard and would report a 
> defect towards the POSIX community.



In D135360#3888632 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D135360#3888632>, @balazske wrote:

> About the "ftell" problem: The POSIX rules are really an extension of the C 
> standard rules. At `ftell` according to C standard `errno` should be set to a 
> positive value if error occurs. The POSIX rules extend this: `errno` is not 
> changed if no error occurs. [...] It may be best to use the POSIX rules for 
> the checker, because the C standard does not say much and may need to require 
> setting of `errno` to 0 before a standard function call.

Interesting pair of perspectives, I think a reasonable checker should be a 
little more conservative, more akin to what POSIX seems to specify.

In D135360#3885556 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D135360#3885556>, @martong wrote:

> In D135360#3885494 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D135360#3885494>, @balazske 
> wrote:
>
>> [...] Probably this should be a discourse question?
>
> Okay then, I think it is worth to have a discourse question. But you could 
> ask the wider "Clang" community, so I would not post the question as 
> something that is related strictly to the static analyzer.

Did this thread ever materialize? I admit I didn't follow :)


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