QL: field only used in charPred #7598
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That code is fine. The field can just be deleted there, if we want. |
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It's an instance of a harmless pattern that appears to also occur many other places: When a class wraps an IPA-injector, all the columns from the IPA case are added as fields, and it may well be that not all of those needs to be referenced in member predicates. |
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We may want to exclude that pattern from this query. |
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Results look better now. 👍 |
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| @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ private import codeql_ql.ast.internal.Builtins | |||
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| private newtype TValueNumber = | |||
| TVariableValueNumber(VarDecl var) { variableAccessValueNumber(_, var) } or | |||
| TFieldValueNumber(VarDecl var) { fieldAccessValueNumber(_, var) } or | |||
| TFieldValueNumber(FieldDecl var) { fieldAccessValueNumber(_, var) } or | |||
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is this an unrelated drive-by bugfix?
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I think var instanceof FieldDecl was implied by fieldAccessValueNumber already. So this is just making the branch more readable.
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Yes, I was trying to make it clear when something is a FieldDecl and when something is a VarDecl.
There is a lot of drive-by "Make FieldDecl and it's uses better"-fixes in this PR.
Flags some bad style I recently encountered during a code-review.
I also went ahead and fixed all the alerts found in JS. (Except for this one, and the alerts in shared files).
Most of the time the fix is to somehow inline the field into the charpred.
But the right way to inline the field can vary a lot, so I'm not writing an automated patch for this.
I think that for some of the issues (e.g. this one) the problem is that the field should have been used somewhere.