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feat(unused_var): analyze global variables inside function body - #2944

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feat(unused_var): analyze global variables inside function body#2944
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Before this PR, any global variable found in function body marked this function as side-effect one. Analyzing global variables more precisely from now.
Any help with missed test cases will be highly appreciated.

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Thanks! I will look this evening..

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small nits.. I will test it out a bit..

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hmm I have tried it out and it works better than I thought!

// check if pointer to global variable assigned to another variable (another_var = &global_var)
if (Token::simpleMatch(bodyToken->tokAt(-1), "&") && Token::simpleMatch(bodyToken->tokAt(-2), "=")) {
const Token* assigned_var_token = bodyToken->tokAt(-3);
if (assigned_var_token && assigned_var_token->variable())

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if this condition is true then you don't care that the address is used somehow.. would probably be safer to return false then.

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As I see, isVariableChanged() works fine enough with "pointer-to-global" variables. I prefer to leave it as is, if you not insist.
Do you see any test cases which will force this code work not as expected?

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I think it works well.. right now I am only worried about the todo test case. Do you know it it's complex to fix that?

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Probably, it should be not so complex. But it can affect existing tests and I will need some time to figure out with them.
Also I can not estimate a free time amount I will be able to put on this work in the nearest time. =)
How about this one - I will return false for now and update astutils.cpp and this piece of code in next PR?

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It's fine to make a partial fix.. and finish later. but then I feel more comfortable if there are no false positives in the meantime. So well.. could you return false if there is a global array/pointer variable.

Comment threadlib/checkunusedvar.cpp Outdated
@@ -1623,15 +1623,16 @@ bool CheckUnusedVar::isFunctionWithoutSideEffects(const Function& func, const To
if (bodyVariable->isGlobal() ||
(std::find(pointersToGlobals.begin(), pointersToGlobals.end(), bodyVariable) != pointersToGlobals.end()))

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Now we can use pointersToGlobals.find(bodyVariable) != pointersToGlobals.end() instead here.

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danmar merged commit 6366a57 into cppcheck-opensource:mainDec 19, 2020
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Thanks!

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Thanks!

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