When analyzing the type test implied by a pattern, flow analysis uses
three variables to control promotion behavior:
- `matchFailsIfWrongType`, which indicates whether flow analysis needs
to account for the possible control flow path resulting from the
type test failing. (This is `false` for cast patterns, because in
the case where a cast pattern fails, an exception is thrown).
- `matchMayFailEvenIfCorrectType`, which indicates whether flow
analysis needs to account for the possible control flow path
resulting from the type test succeeding, but some other check
causing the match to fail. (This is `true` for most list patterns,
because the list pattern will fail to match if the list has the
wrong length).
(Note that `matchMayFailEvenIfCorrectType` doesn't account for the
fact that a pattern match might fail due to failure in a subpattern
match; this is automatically handled by the fact that flow analysis
walks through the complete pattern in the order in which it
executes.)
- `coversMatchedType`, which indicates whether the type test is
guaranteed to succeed due to a subtype relationship between the
matched value type and the type being tested (e.g. a `num x` pattern
is guaranteed to succeed if the matched value type is `int`).
In the case where `matchFailsIfWrongType` is `true`,
`matchMayFailEvenIfCorrectType` is `true`, and `coversMatchedType` is
`false`, flow analysis must account for the fact that there are two
ways that the pattern match might fail: the type test might fail, or
the type test might succeed but then the pattern match might fail for
some other reason.
Before this change, this was done incorrectly, and flow analysis only
accounted for the possibility of the type test failing.
Fixes#55543.
Bug: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/55543
Change-Id: I86603ec5f940402313f32177212b7960878db97f
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/364942
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johnni Winther <johnniwinther@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
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