[clang-tidy] add check cppcoreguidelines-pro-type-static-cast-downcast
Summary:
This check flags all usages of static_cast, where a base class is casted
to a derived class.
In those cases, a fixit is provided to convert the cast to a
dynamic_cast.
Use of these casts can violate type safety and cause the program to
access a variable that is actually of type X to be accessed as if it
were of an unrelated type Z.
This rule is part of the "Type safety" profile of the C++ Core
Guidelines, see
https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppCoreGuidelines.md#-type2-dont-use-static_cast-downcasts-use-dynamic_cast-instead
Depends on D13313
Reviewers: alexfh, sbenza, bkramer, aaron.ballman
Subscribers: cfe-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13368
llvm-svn: 250098
GitOrigin-RevId: a704d4bb27354a7ee54b8672808ebae9c13ba806
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