go/types: fewer spurious "declared but not used" follow-on errors

Mark variables as used even when they appear within an expression
context which we can't type-check; e.g., because the expression is
erroneous, or comes from an import "C" declaration.

Fixes #20358.

Change-Id: Ib28cc78d3867c597c7a1ace54de09ada02f5b33a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/43500Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>

src/go/types/call.go

@@ -93,7 +93,9 @@ func (check *Checker) call(x *operand, e *ast.CallExpr) exprKind {
 func (check *Checker) use(arg ...ast.Expr) {
 	var x operand
 	for _, e := range arg {
-		check.rawExpr(&x, e, nil)
+		if e != nil { // be safe
+			check.rawExpr(&x, e, nil)
+		}
 	}
 }
 

src/go/types/expr.go

@@ -1161,6 +1161,17 @@ func (check *Checker) exprInternal(x *operand, e ast.Expr, hint Type) exprKind {
 			}
 
 		default:
+			// when "using" all elements unpack KeyValueExpr
+			// explicitly because check.use doesn't accept them
+			for _, e := range e.Elts {
+				if kv, _ := e.(*ast.KeyValueExpr); kv != nil {
+					// Ideally, we should also "use" kv.Key but we can't know
+					// if it's an externally defined struct key or not. Going
+					// forward anyway can lead to other errors. Give up instead.
+					e = kv.Value
+				}
+				check.use(e)
+			}
 			// if utyp is invalid, an error was reported before
 			if utyp != Typ[Invalid] {
 				check.errorf(e.Pos(), "invalid composite literal type %s", typ)
@@ -1182,6 +1193,7 @@ func (check *Checker) exprInternal(x *operand, e ast.Expr, hint Type) exprKind {
 	case *ast.IndexExpr:
 		check.expr(x, e.X)
 		if x.mode == invalid {
+			check.use(e.Index)
 			goto Error
 		}
 
@@ -1251,6 +1263,7 @@ func (check *Checker) exprInternal(x *operand, e ast.Expr, hint Type) exprKind {
 	case *ast.SliceExpr:
 		check.expr(x, e.X)
 		if x.mode == invalid {
+			check.use(e.Low, e.High, e.Max)
 			goto Error
 		}
 

src/go/types/testdata/issues.src

@@ -186,3 +186,24 @@ func issue15755() {
 	_ = u
 	_ = v
 }
+
+// Test that we don't get "declared but not used"
+// errors in the context of invalid/C objects.
+func issue20358() {
+	var F C /* ERROR "undeclared" */ .F
+	var A C /* ERROR "undeclared" */ .A
+	var S C /* ERROR "undeclared" */ .S
+	type T C /* ERROR "undeclared" */ .T
+	type P C /* ERROR "undeclared" */ .P
+
+	// these variables must be "used" even though
+	// the LHS expressions/types below in which
+	// context they are used are unknown/invalid
+	var f, a, s1, s2, s3, t, p int
+
+	_ = F(f)
+	_ = A[a]
+	_ = S[s1:s2:s3]
+	_ = T{t}
+	_ = P{f: p}
+}