donat.nagy added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/ArrayBoundCheckerV2.cpp:173
+  const MemSpaceRegion *SR = rawOffset.getRegion()->getMemorySpace();
+  if (SR->getKind() != MemRegion::UnknownSpaceRegionKind) {
+    // a pointer to UnknownSpaceRegionKind may point to the middle of
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steakhal wrote:
> steakhal wrote:
> > donat.nagy wrote:
> > > donat.nagy wrote:
> > > > steakhal wrote:
> > > > > donat.nagy wrote:
> > > > > > steakhal wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > You're completely right, I just blindly copied this test from the 
> > > > > > needlessly overcomplicated `computeExtentBegin()`.
> > > > > Hold on. This would only skip the lower bounds check if it's an 
> > > > > `UnknownSpaceRegion`.
> > > > > Shouldn't we early return instead?
> > > > This behavior is inherited from the code before my commit: the old 
> > > > block `if ( /*... =*/ extentBegin.getAs<NonLoc>() ) { /* ... */ }` is 
> > > > equivalent to `if (llvm::isa<UnknownSpaceRegion>(SR)) { /*...*/ }` and 
> > > > there was no early return connected to //this// NonLocness check. (The 
> > > > old code skipped the upper bound check if the result of `evalBinOpNN()` 
> > > > is unknown, and that's what I changed because I saw no reason to do an 
> > > > early return there.)
> > > > 
> > > > After some research into the memory region model, I think that there is 
> > > > no reason to perform an early return -- in fact, the condition of this  
> > > > `if` seems to be too narrow because we would like to warn about code 
> > > > like
> > > >   struct foo {
> > > >     int tag;
> > > >     int array[5];
> > > >   };
> > > >   int f(struct foo *p) {
> > > >     return p->arr[-1];
> > > >   }
> > > > despite the fact that it's indexing into a `FieldRegion` inside a 
> > > > `SymbolicRegion` in `UnknownSpaceRegion`. That is, instead of checking 
> > > > the top-level MemorySpace, the correct logic would be checking the kind 
> > > > of the memory region and/or perhaps its immediate super-region.
> > > > 
> > > > As this is a complex topic and completely unrelated to the main goal of 
> > > > this commit; I'd prefer to keep the old (not ideal, but working) logic 
> > > > in this patch, then revisit this question by creating a separate 
> > > > follow-up commit.
> > > Minor nitpick: your suggested change accidentally negated the conditional 
> > > :) ... and I said that it's "completely right". I'm glad that I noticed 
> > > this and inserted the "!" before the `isa` check because otherwise it 
> > > could've been annoying to debug this...
> > Agreed.
> Sorry about that. Happens
No problem :)


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