rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
`manual_clamp` misses when the upper bound is a function result
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Description
Summary
manual_clamp doesn't trigger if one of the bounds being used is the return value from a function.
Applying this lint might change the meaning of the code if a function returns different results successive times it's called, but I think for a MaybeIncorrect lint it's reasonable to suggest this at least in cases where the function takes no mutable references and is given the same arguments.
Lint Name
manual_clamp
Reproducer
I tried this code:
fn upper_bound() -> f32 {
5.0
}
pub fn manual_clamp(f: f32) -> f32 {
if f < 0. { 0. } else if f > upper_bound() { upper_bound() } else { f }
}
I expected to see the manual_clamp lint trigger on the manual_clamp function.
Instead, this happened:
No lints
Version
rustc 1.94.0 (4a4ef493e 2026-03-02)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 4a4ef493e3a1488c6e321570238084b38948f6db
commit-date: 2026-03-02
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.94.0
LLVM version: 21.1.8
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Research direction
Start with the manual_clamp lint entry point and run the linked Rust Playground reproducer. Compare the lint's handling of a function result used as the upper bound, then add coverage for the reported case; done means the lint triggers without changing behavior for unsupported side-effecting calls.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100