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Author: Donát Nagy (NagyDonat)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

Add a FIXME testcase which documents less than ideal behavior of the analyzer 
when a `const char *` is converted to `const unsigned char *`. This testcase is 
motivated by an ArrayBoundV2 report produced on the source file `id3v2enc.c` 
within the ffmpeg project.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/108799.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) clang/test/Analysis/out-of-bounds.c (+17-1) 


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diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/out-of-bounds.c 
b/clang/test/Analysis/out-of-bounds.c
index 1f771c2b3bd138..9b9cc368af94dc 100644
--- a/clang/test/Analysis/out-of-bounds.c
+++ b/clang/test/Analysis/out-of-bounds.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// RUN: %clang_analyze_cc1 -Wno-array-bounds 
-analyzer-checker=core,alpha.security.ArrayBoundV2,debug.ExprInspection -verify 
%s
+// RUN: %clang_analyze_cc1 -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-pointer-sign 
-analyzer-checker=core,alpha.security.ArrayBoundV2,debug.ExprInspection -verify 
%s
 
 void clang_analyzer_eval(int);
 
@@ -194,3 +194,19 @@ char test_comparison_with_extent_symbol(struct incomplete 
*p) {
   return ((char *)p)[-1]; // no-warning
 }
 
+
+typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
+static int string_is_ascii(const uint8_t *str) {
+  while (*str && *str < 128) str++;
+  // expected-warning@-1 {{Out of bound access to memory}}
+  return !*str;
+}
+void test_charptr_ucharptr_conversion(void) {
+  const char *s = "";
+  // NOTE: This code passes a `const char *` to a `const unsigned char *`
+  // parameter, which is a bit dodgy (it would be reported by -Wpointer-sign),
+  // but works on platforms where `char` is unsigned.
+  // FIXME: The analyzer is confused by this conversion and cannot deduce that
+  // `*str` is immediately equal to zero within `string_is_ascii()`.
+  string_is_ascii(s);
+}

``````````

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/108799
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