Unnecessary "throws" declarations tend to cascade. If foo() calls
bar() and bar() falsely declares that it might throw IOException, that
often leads a programmer to declare that foo() might throw IOException
as well. Fixing the bar() throws declaration then reveals that we can
fix the foo() throws declaration too. By the time we reach a fixed
point with cleaning these up, we have removed roughly 320 unnecessary
throws declarations.
In a few cases, this cleanup even lets us remove entire "try
... catch" statements where the only thing being caught was an
exception that we now statically know cannot be thrown. Nice!
In Eclipse project configurations, upgrade any future such shenanigans
from warnings to errors. Now that we've fixed this, we don't want it
coming back again.
There is a potential drawback to this change. Conceivably some public
WALA API entry point might have declared that it could throw some
exception merely to reserve the *option* of throwing that exception in
third-party code that subclasses and overrides the API entry point in
question. I have no idea whether this is a significant concern in
practice, though.
The fix is to add "static" where appropriate, of course. I've also
simplified calls to such methods to reflect the fact that they no
longer need a specific object to call the method on.
In projects that contain test inputs, I've left the non-static
declarations unchanged, and instead downgraded the warning to be
ignored. In all other projects, this warning has been upgraded to an
error.
Eclipse warns that the "if" statements' true blocks are dead, and
indeed the conditions being tested here can never be true. It's a
little subtle why that's so, though. Changing them to "assert"
statements removes two warnings about deprecated code, while still
helping human readers understand what invariants must hold here.
Most of the invalid HTML arose from bare "<" and ">" characters.
These should be escaped as "<" and ">" when not intended to
introduce HTML tags. When you have many such characters close
together, "{@literal ...}" is a nice, readable alternative that
automatically escapes its contents. If the text in question is
intended to be a code fragment, then "{@code ...}" is appropriate:
this is essentially equivalent to "<code>{@literal ...}</code>".
There were a few other HTML violations too, but none common enough to
be worth detailing here.
The former will include the contents of the array, while the latter
only includes the object's identity.
This will allow WALA to be compiled using Google's error-prone compiler
(https://github.com/google/error-prone).
1) extend ContextSelector interface to allow it to specify parameters of interest
2) extend filtering mechanism at call sites to allow CPA-style filtering when requested by contexts
3) various related fixes and extensions:
a) removed redundant code to handle dispatch for JavaScript, so now it shares the core mechanism
b) tighten types for operators that take an array of args - now the array is T[] at the cost of a few array allocation methods
c) a bit more support for empty int sets
d) void function objects
e) bug fixes for lexical scoping support, and adaptation to work with core dispatch mechanism
f) example of CPA-style sensitivity to handle nastiness in a JavaScript for(.. in ...) loop
git-svn-id: https://wala.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wala/trunk@4150 f5eafffb-2e1d-0410-98e4-8ec43c5233c4
other minor changes:
TypeInference:
1) fix to handle constant that is the last value number
2) add visitor to set result of instanceof to boolean if doPrimitives
3) PrimitivePropagateOperator not final to allow specialization
PrimitiveType:
mimic Java semantics for implicit upcasts: add notion of size and
define meet to take larger size
SSASwitchInstruction:
add iterator for switch labels
cfg.Util:
add more helpers for dealing with switches
git-svn-id: https://wala.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wala/trunk@838 f5eafffb-2e1d-0410-98e4-8ec43c5233c4
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Martin Mohr
Collin Winter
Juergen Graf
Tobias Blaschke
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