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Most of the cases we ran into were metaprogramming techniques which test whether an expression is a valid null pointer constants. These got innocently applied to 'false' and trigge…

GCC definitely has a warning for 0.5 -> int (likely -Wconversion, but I've not checked). It also has a warning for setting a pointer to "false" (-Wconversion-null). However, turnin…

That's the whole point. =] This is a surprising aspect of C++: the shift expression doesn't have the type of the declared variable. The integer literals we are shifting are of 'int…

Doh! Good catch, comment updated. =[ Maybe we do need Clang-for-comments as well as Clang-for-C++ code.... ;]

I would expect many of these tools to catch these types of bugs. The challenging thing for us has been to catch only bugs, and to catch them very fast during normal compilation. A …