[analyzer] Suppress paths involving a reference whose rvalue is null.
Most map types have an operator[] that inserts a new element if the key isn't found, then returns a reference to the value slot so that you can assign into it. However, if the value type is a pointer, it will be initialized to null. This is usually no problem. However, if the user /knows/ the map contains a value for a particular key, they may just use it immediately: // From ClangSACheckersEmitter.cpp recordGroupMap[group]->Checkers In this case the analyzer reports a null dereference on the path where the key is not in the map, even though the user knows that path is impossible here. They could silence the warning by adding an assertion, but that means splitting up the expression and introducing a local variable. (Note that the analyzer has no way of knowing that recordGroupMap[group] will return the same reference if called twice in a row!) We already have logic that says a null dereference has a high chance of being a false positive if the null came from an inlined function. This patch simply extends that to references whose rvalues are null as well, silencing several false positives in LLVM. <rdar://problem/13239854> llvm-svn: 176371
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