CA1823 incorrectly flags const used as a fixed buffer length

[stephentoub]

Analyzer package

Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.FxCopAnalyzers

Package Version

v2.9.4

Diagnostic ID

CA1823

Repro steps

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

class Program
{
    static void Main() { }

    private const int SomeLength = 16;

    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    internal unsafe struct SomeStruct
    {
        internal fixed byte FixedBuffer[SomeLength];
    }
}

Expected behavior

No warnings.

Actual behavior

The CA1823 analyzer flags the SomeLength const as being unused:

Program.cs(7,23,7,33): warning CA1823: Unused field 'SomeLength'.

even though obviously it is being used.

[mavasani]

@jinujoseph @vatsalyaagrawal Can we port this issue to Roslyn repo? The issue does not seem specific to this analyzer. Seems like there is no IFieldReferenceOperation being generated for SomeLength usage in internal fixed byte FixedBuffer[SomeLength];.

Even Find All References also does not seem to find this reference to SomeLength, and the reference is also not colored as a normal reference would be, so it is very likely that the underlying compiler bound tree does not have a bound node representing this field reference.

[stephentoub]

Even Find All References also does not seem to find this reference to SomeLength

Yeah, and the Rename support doesn't fix the reference, IDE0051 flags it as unused, Go to Definition on the reference fails, etc.

[CyrusNajmabadi]

QuiclInfo doesn't work either. So this is likely a deeper SemanticModel issue, not just an IOp issue.

[mavasani]

@CyrusNajmabadi is correct - this is a deeper issue in the compiler layer. Moved to Area-Compilers.

[sharwell]

The underlying semantic model issue is likely #29224