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/* Find near-matches for strings.
   Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This file is part of GCC.

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<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#include "config.h"
#include "system.h"
#include "coretypes.h"
#include "tm.h"
#include "tree.h"
#include "spellcheck.h"
#include "selftest.h"

/* Get the edit distance between the two strings: the minimal
   number of edits that are needed to change one string into another,
   where edits can be one-character insertions, removals, or substitutions,
   or transpositions of two adjacent characters (counting as one "edit").

   This implementation uses the Wagner-Fischer algorithm for the
   Damerau-Levenshtein distance; specifically, the "optimal string alignment
   distance" or "restricted edit distance" variant.  */

edit_distance_t
get_edit_distance (const char *s, int len_s,
		   const char *t, int len_t)
{
  const bool debug = false;

  if (debug)
    {
      printf ("s: \"%s\" (len_s=%i)\n", s, len_s);
      printf ("t: \"%s\" (len_t=%i)\n", t, len_t);
    }

  if (len_s == 0)
    return len_t;
  if (len_t == 0)
    return len_s;

  /* We effectively build a matrix where each (i, j) contains the
     distance between the prefix strings s[0:j] and t[0:i].
     Rather than actually build an (len_t + 1) * (len_s + 1) matrix,
     we simply keep track of the last two rows, v_one_ago and v_two_ago,
     and a new row, v_next, which avoids an (len_t + 1) * (len_s + 1)
     allocation and memory accesses in favor of three (len_s + 1)
     allocations.  These could potentially be
     statically-allocated if we impose a maximum length on the
     strings of interest.  */
  edit_distance_t *v_two_ago = new edit_distance_t[len_s + 1];
  edit_distance_t *v_one_ago = new edit_distance_t[len_s + 1];
  edit_distance_t *v_next = new edit_distance_t[len_s + 1];

  /* The first row is for the case of an empty target string, which
     we can reach by deleting every character in the source string.  */
  for (int i = 0; i < len_s + 1; i++)
    v_one_ago[i] = i;

  /* Build successive rows.  */
  for (int i = 0; i < len_t; i++)
    {
      if (debug)
	{
	  printf ("i:%i v_one_ago = ", i);
	  for (int j = 0; j < len_s + 1; j++)
	    printf ("%i ", v_one_ago[j]);
	  printf ("\n");
	}

      /* The initial column is for the case of an empty source string; we
	 can reach prefixes of the target string of length i
	 by inserting i characters.  */
      v_next[0] = i + 1;

      /* Build the rest of the row by considering neighbors to
	 the north, west and northwest.  */
      for (int j = 0; j < len_s; j++)
	{
	  edit_distance_t cost = (s[j] == t[i] ? 0 : 1);
	  edit_distance_t deletion     = v_next[j] + 1;
	  edit_distance_t insertion    = v_one_ago[j + 1] + 1;
	  edit_distance_t substitution = v_one_ago[j] + cost;
	  edit_distance_t cheapest = MIN (deletion, insertion);
	  cheapest = MIN (cheapest, substitution);
	  if (i > 0 && j > 0 && s[j] == t[i - 1] && s[j - 1] == t[i])
	    {
	      edit_distance_t transposition = v_two_ago[j - 1] + 1;
	      cheapest = MIN (cheapest, transposition);
	    }
	  v_next[j + 1] = cheapest;
	}

      /* Prepare to move on to next row.  */
      for (int j = 0; j < len_s + 1; j++)
	{
	  v_two_ago[j] = v_one_ago[j];
	  v_one_ago[j] = v_next[j];
	}
    }

  if (debug)
    {
      printf ("final v_next = ");
      for (int j = 0; j < len_s + 1; j++)
	printf ("%i ", v_next[j]);
      printf ("\n");
    }

  edit_distance_t result = v_next[len_s];
  delete[] v_two_ago;
  delete[] v_one_ago;
  delete[] v_next;
  return result;
}

/* Get the edit distance between two nil-terminated strings.  */

edit_distance_t
get_edit_distance (const char *s, const char *t)
{
  return get_edit_distance (s, strlen (s), t, strlen (t));
}

/* Given TARGET, a non-NULL string, and CANDIDATES, a non-NULL ptr to
   an autovec of non-NULL strings, determine which element within
   CANDIDATES has the lowest edit distance to TARGET.  If there are
   multiple elements with the same minimal distance, the first in the
   vector wins.

   If more than half of the letters were misspelled, the suggestion is
   likely to be meaningless, so return NULL for this case.  */

const char *
find_closest_string (const char *target,
		     const auto_vec<const char *> *candidates)
{
  gcc_assert (target);
  gcc_assert (candidates);

  int i;
  const char *candidate;
  best_match<const char *, const char *> bm (target);
  FOR_EACH_VEC_ELT (*candidates, i, candidate)
    {
      gcc_assert (candidate);
      bm.consider (candidate);
    }

  return bm.get_best_meaningful_candidate ();
}

/* Generate the maximum edit distance for which we consider a suggestion
   to be meaningful, given a goal of length GOAL_LEN and a candidate of
   length CANDIDATE_LEN.

   This is a third of the the length of the candidate or of the goal,
   whichever is bigger.  */

edit_distance_t
get_edit_distance_cutoff (size_t goal_len, size_t candidate_len)
{
  size_t max_length = MAX (goal_len, candidate_len);
  size_t min_length = MIN (goal_len, candidate_len);

  gcc_assert (max_length >= min_length);

  /* Special case: don't offer suggestions for a pair of
     length == 1 strings (or empty strings).  */
  if (max_length <= 1)
    return 0;

  /* If the lengths are close, then round down.  */
  if (max_length - min_length <= 1)
    /* ...but allow an edit distance of at least 1.  */
    return MAX (max_length / 3, 1);

  /* Otherwise, round up (thus giving a little extra leeway to some cases
     involving insertions/deletions).  */
  return (max_length + 2) / 3;
}

#if CHECKING_P

namespace selftest {

/* Selftests.  */

/* Verify that get_edit_distance (A, B) equals the expected value.  */

static void
test_get_edit_distance_one_way (const char *a, const char *b,
				edit_distance_t expected)
{
  edit_distance_t actual = get_edit_distance (a, b);
  ASSERT_EQ (actual, expected);
}

/* Verify that both
     get_edit_distance (A, B)
   and
     get_edit_distance (B, A)
   equal the expected value, to ensure that the function is symmetric.  */

static void
test_get_edit_distance_both_ways (const char *a, const char *b,
			     edit_distance_t expected)
{
  test_get_edit_distance_one_way (a, b, expected);
  test_get_edit_distance_one_way (b, a, expected);
}

/* Verify get_edit_distance for a variety of pairs of pre-canned
   inputs, comparing against known-good values.  */

static void
test_edit_distances ()
{
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("", "nonempty", strlen ("nonempty"));
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("saturday", "sunday", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("foo", "m_foo", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("hello_world", "HelloWorld", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways
    ("the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "dog", 40);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways
    ("the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
     "the quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox",
     4);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways
    ("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,",
     "All your base are belong to us",
     44);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("foo", "FOO", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("fee", "deed", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("coorzd1", "coordx1", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("assert", "sqrt", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("PATH_MAX", "INT8_MAX", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("time", "nice", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("bar", "carg", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("gtk_widget_show_all",
				    "GtkWidgetShowAll", 7);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("m_bar", "bar", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("MACRO", "MACRAME", 3);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("ab", "ac", 1);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("ab", "a", 1);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("a", "b", 1);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("nanl", "name", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("char", "bar", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("-optimize", "fsanitize", 5);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("__DATE__", "__i386__", 4);

  /* Examples where transposition helps.  */
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("ab", "ba", 1);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("ba", "abc", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("coorzd1", "coordz1", 1);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
				    "bacdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy", 2);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("saturday", "sundya", 4);
  test_get_edit_distance_both_ways ("signed", "singed", 1);
}

/* Subroutine of test_get_edit_distance_cutoff, for emulating the
   spellchecking cutoff in up to GCC 8.  */

static edit_distance_t
get_old_cutoff (size_t goal_len, size_t candidate_len)
{
  return MAX (goal_len, candidate_len) / 2;
}

/* Verify that the cutoff for "meaningfulness" of suggestions is at least as
   conservative as in older GCC releases.

   This should ensure that we don't offer additional meaningless
   suggestions (apart from those for which transposition has helped).  */

static void
test_get_edit_distance_cutoff ()
{
  for (size_t goal_len = 0; goal_len < 30; goal_len++)
    for (size_t candidate_len = 0; candidate_len < 30; candidate_len++)
      ASSERT_TRUE (get_edit_distance_cutoff (goal_len, candidate_len)
		   <= get_old_cutoff (goal_len, candidate_len));
}

/* Assert that CANDIDATE is offered as a suggestion for TARGET.  */

static void
assert_suggested_for (const location &loc, const char *candidate,
		      const char *target)
{
  auto_vec<const char *> candidates;
  candidates.safe_push (candidate);
  ASSERT_EQ_AT (loc, candidate, find_closest_string (target, &candidates));
}

/* Assert that CANDIDATE is offered as a suggestion for TARGET.  */

#define ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR(CANDIDATE, TARGET)			\
  SELFTEST_BEGIN_STMT							\
    assert_suggested_for (SELFTEST_LOCATION, CANDIDATE, TARGET);	\
  SELFTEST_END_STMT

/* Assert that CANDIDATE is not offered as a suggestion for TARGET.  */

static void
assert_not_suggested_for (const location &loc, const char *candidate,
			  const char *target)
{
  auto_vec<const char *> candidates;
  candidates.safe_push (candidate);
  ASSERT_EQ_AT (loc, NULL, find_closest_string (target, &candidates));
}

/* Assert that CANDIDATE is not offered as a suggestion for TARGET.  */

#define ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR(CANDIDATE, TARGET)			\
  SELFTEST_BEGIN_STMT							\
    assert_not_suggested_for (SELFTEST_LOCATION, CANDIDATE, TARGET);	\
  SELFTEST_END_STMT

/* Verify that we offer varous suggestions that are meaningful,
   and that we don't offer various other ones that aren't (PR c/82967).  */

static void
test_suggestions ()
{
  /* Good suggestions.  */

  ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("m_bar", "bar");
  // dist == 2, max_length == 5, min_length == 3

  ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("MACRO", "MACRAME");
  // dist == 3, max_length == 7, min_length == 5

  ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("gtk_widget_show_all", "GtkWidgetShowAll");
  // dist == 7, max_length == 16, min_length = 19

  ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("ab", "ac");
  // dist == 1, max_length == min_length = 2

  ASSERT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("ab", "a");
  // dist == 1, max_length == 2, min_length = 1

  /* Bad suggestions.  */

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("a", "b");
  // dist == 1, max_length == min_length = 1

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("sqrt", "assert");
  // dist == 3, max_length 6, min_length == 4

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("INT8_MAX", "PATH_MAX");
  // dist == 3, max_length == min_length == 8

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("nice", "time");
  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("nanl", "name");
  // dist == 2, max_length == min_length == 4

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("carg", "bar");
  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("char", "bar");
  // dist == 2, max_length == 4, min_length == 3

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("-optimize", "fsanitize");
  // dist == 5, max_length == min_length == 9

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("__DATE__", "__i386__");
  // dist == 4, max_length == min_length == 8

  ASSERT_NOT_SUGGESTED_FOR ("start_input_device", "InputDevice");
  // dist == 9, max_length == 18, min_length == 11
}

/* Verify that find_closest_string is sane.  */

static void
test_find_closest_string ()
{
  auto_vec<const char *> candidates;

  /* Verify that it can handle an empty vec.  */
  ASSERT_EQ (NULL, find_closest_string ("", &candidates));

  /* Verify that it works sanely for non-empty vecs.  */
  candidates.safe_push ("apple");
  candidates.safe_push ("banana");
  candidates.safe_push ("cherry");

  ASSERT_STREQ ("apple", find_closest_string ("app", &candidates));
  ASSERT_STREQ ("banana", find_closest_string ("banyan", &candidates));
  ASSERT_STREQ ("cherry", find_closest_string ("berry", &candidates));
  ASSERT_EQ (NULL, find_closest_string ("not like the others", &candidates));

  /* The order of the vec can matter, but it should not matter for these
     inputs.  */
  candidates.truncate (0);
  candidates.safe_push ("cherry");
  candidates.safe_push ("banana");
  candidates.safe_push ("apple");
  ASSERT_STREQ ("apple", find_closest_string ("app", &candidates));
  ASSERT_STREQ ("banana", find_closest_string ("banyan", &candidates));
  ASSERT_STREQ ("cherry", find_closest_string ("berry", &candidates));
  ASSERT_EQ (NULL, find_closest_string ("not like the others", &candidates));

  /* If the goal string somehow makes it into the candidate list, offering
     it as a suggestion will be nonsensical.  Verify that we don't offer such
     suggestions.  */
  ASSERT_EQ (NULL, find_closest_string ("banana", &candidates));

  /* Example from PR 69968 where transposition helps.  */
  candidates.truncate (0);
  candidates.safe_push("coordx");
  candidates.safe_push("coordy");
  candidates.safe_push("coordz");
  candidates.safe_push("coordx1");
  candidates.safe_push("coordy1");
  candidates.safe_push("coordz1");
  ASSERT_STREQ ("coordz1", find_closest_string ("coorzd1", &candidates));
}

/* Test data for test_metric_conditions.  */

static const char * const test_data[] = {
  "",
  "foo",
  "food",
  "boo",
  "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
};

/* Verify that get_edit_distance appears to be a sane distance function,
   i.e. the conditions for being a metric.  This is done directly for a
   small set of examples, using test_data above.  This is O(N^3) in the size
   of the array, due to the test for the triangle inequality, so we keep the
   array small.  */

static void
test_metric_conditions ()
{
  const int num_test_cases = sizeof (test_data) / sizeof (test_data[0]);

  for (int i = 0; i < num_test_cases; i++)
    {
      for (int j = 0; j < num_test_cases; j++)
	{
	  edit_distance_t dist_ij
	    = get_edit_distance (test_data[i], test_data[j]);

	  /* Identity of indiscernibles: d(i, j) > 0 iff i == j.  */
	  if (i == j)
	    ASSERT_EQ (dist_ij, 0);
	  else
	    ASSERT_TRUE (dist_ij > 0);

	  /* Symmetry: d(i, j) == d(j, i).  */
	  edit_distance_t dist_ji
	    = get_edit_distance (test_data[j], test_data[i]);
	  ASSERT_EQ (dist_ij, dist_ji);

	  /* Triangle inequality.  */
	  for (int k = 0; k < num_test_cases; k++)
	    {
	      edit_distance_t dist_ik
		= get_edit_distance (test_data[i], test_data[k]);
	      edit_distance_t dist_jk
		= get_edit_distance (test_data[j], test_data[k]);
	      ASSERT_TRUE (dist_ik <= dist_ij + dist_jk);
	    }
	}
    }
}

/* Run all of the selftests within this file.  */

void
spellcheck_c_tests ()
{
  test_edit_distances ();
  test_get_edit_distance_cutoff ();
  test_suggestions ();
  test_find_closest_string ();
  test_metric_conditions ();
}

} // namespace selftest

#endif /* #if CHECKING_P */