On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 11:44 +0200, Tim Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is the revised version of my patch. I had trouble to get your
> point regarding the float_visitor:
> 
> > If the constant is seen first, then the non-constant won't be
> > favored
> > (though perhaps binary ops get canonicalized so that constants are
> > on
> > the RHS?).
> 
> Only the assignment of m_result in visit_constant_svalue is guarded
> by
>  !m_result, while the other two are not. So, there are two
> possibilities:
>         1. A constant is seen first and then assigned to m_result.
>                 1.1. A non-constant float operand is seen later and
>                      overwrites m_result.
>                 1.2. There's no non-constant float operand, thus the
>                      constant is the actual floating-point operand
> and
>                      is kept inside m_result.
>         2. A non-constant is seen first, then m_result might be
>            overwritten with another non-constant later but never
>            with a constant.
> Do I have a flaw in my thinking? (But they do seem to get
> canonicalized,
> so that shouldn't matter)

I think I was confused here, and that you're right.  Sorry about that.

> 
> > How about:
> >  -Wanalyzer-imprecise-float-arithmetic
> >  -Wanalyzer-imprecise-fp-arithmetic
> > instead?  (ideas welcome)
> 
> I've chosen the second. I mostly tried to avoid float because it is
> also
> a reserved keyword in many languages and I wanted to avoid confusion
> (might be overthinking that).

Fair enough.

> 
> - Tim
> 
> This patch fixes the ICE reported in PR106181 and adds a new warning
> to
> the analyzer complaining about the use of floating-point operands.
> 
> Regrtested on Linux x86_64.

Thanks; the patch looks good for trunk.

Dave

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