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authorLuboš Luňák <l.lunak@suse.cz>2013-07-16 15:30:04 +0200
committerLuboš Luňák <l.lunak@suse.cz>2013-07-16 15:41:40 +0200
commitc17c8cc029dc6c104e16627646389d09eb1e6119 (patch)
tree9c246f189a49f13f92791d86fc95cc47c6fa2a20 /compilerplugins
parentc66e9cd24c28ff00f15770037ae9a8dd852fdada (diff)
mention the explicit bool conversion from C++11 for pointer-to-bool check
Change-Id: I050019b30d2ec96bbd25916624f8cb88d72110e4
Diffstat (limited to 'compilerplugins')
-rw-r--r--compilerplugins/clang/pointertobool.cxx7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/compilerplugins/clang/pointertobool.cxx b/compilerplugins/clang/pointertobool.cxx
index 6988c4f5d93b..238e0180b7e8 100644
--- a/compilerplugins/clang/pointertobool.cxx
+++ b/compilerplugins/clang/pointertobool.cxx
@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@ and potentially mistakes.
So far the only places that are checked are passing arguments to functions, as those
could easily choose a different overload.
-The original idea was that the only conversions that are considered safe are
-in conditions (which in turn means also in ||, && and ! operators) and places
-where it's considered unlikely for it to be a problem (or rather, less of a problem
+The original idea was that to follow the explicit bool feature from C++11, where
+the only conversions that would be considered safe are in conditions (which
+in turn means also in ||, && and ! operators) and places where it's considered
+unlikely for it to be a problem (or rather, less of a problem
than explicitly avoiding the warning in the code). The code for this is currently
commented out (there are a couple of places such as 'bool foo = returns_pointer();'
that would need modification), possibly enable those later.