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/*
   This file is part of the clazy static checker.

  Copyright (C) 2015 Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company, info@kdab.com
  Author: Sérgio Martins <sergio.martins@kdab.com>

  Copyright (C) 2015 Sergio Martins <smartins@kde.org>

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  Library General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
  along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB.  If not, write to
  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

#include "dynamic_cast.h"
#include "Utils.h"
#include "QtUtils.h"
#include "checkmanager.h"
#include "TypeUtils.h"

#include <clang/AST/DeclCXX.h>
#include <clang/AST/ExprCXX.h>

using namespace clang;

BogusDynamicCast::BogusDynamicCast(const std::string &name, ClazyContext *context)
    : CheckBase(name, context)
{
}

void BogusDynamicCast::VisitStmt(clang::Stmt *stm)
{
    auto dynExp = dyn_cast<CXXDynamicCastExpr>(stm);
    if (!dynExp)
        return;

    auto namedCast = dyn_cast<CXXNamedCastExpr>(stm);
    CXXRecordDecl *castFrom = Utils::namedCastInnerDecl(namedCast);
    if (!castFrom)
        return;

    if (isOptionSet("qobject") && QtUtils::isQObject(castFrom)) // Very noisy and not very useful, and qobject_cast can fail too
        emitWarning(dynExp->getLocStart(), "Use qobject_cast rather than dynamic_cast");

    CXXRecordDecl *castTo = Utils::namedCastOuterDecl(namedCast);
    if (!castTo)
        return;

    if (castFrom == castTo) {
        emitWarning(stm->getLocStart(), "Casting to itself");
    } else if (TypeUtils::derivesFrom(/*child=*/castFrom, castTo)) {
        emitWarning(stm->getLocStart(), "explicitly casting to base is unnecessary");
    }
}

REGISTER_CHECK("bogus-dynamic-cast", BogusDynamicCast, CheckLevel3)