Iterator modeling depends on container modeling,
but not vice versa. This enables the possibility
to arrange these two modeling checkers into
separate layers.
There are several advantages for doing this: the
first one is that this way we can keep the
respective modeling checkers moderately simple
and small. Furthermore, this enables creation of
checkers on container operations which only
depend on the container modeling. Thus iterator
modeling can be disabled together with the
iterator checkers if they are not needed.
Since many container operations also affect
iterators, container modeling also uses the
iterator library: it creates iterator positions
upon calling the `begin()` or `end()` method of
a containter (but propagation of the abstract
position is left to the iterator modeling),
shifts or invalidates iterators according to the
rules upon calling a container modifier and
rebinds the iterator to a new container upon
`std::move()`.
Iterator modeling propagates the abstract
iterator position, handles the relations between
iterator positions and models iterator
operations such as increments and decrements.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D73547
Sometimes the return value of a comparison operator call is
`UnkownVal`. Since no assumptions can be made on `UnknownVal`,
this leeds to keeping impossible execution paths in the
exploded graph resulting in poor performance and false
positives. To overcome this we replace unknown results of
iterator comparisons by conjured symbols.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70244
Debugging the Iterator Modeling checker or any of the iterator checkers
is difficult without being able to see the relations between the
iterator variables and their abstract positions, as well as the abstract
symbols denoting the begin and the end of the container.
This patch adds the checker-specific part of the Program State printing
to the Iterator Modeling checker.
The recently committed debug.IteratorDebugging checker enables
standalone white-box testing of the modelling of containers and
iterators. For the three checkers based on iterator modelling only
simple tests are needed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70123
Adam Balogh