go/analysis/passes/nilness: degenerate nil condition checker

This check uses the control-flow graph and SSA value graph to detect
problems such as:

	p := &v
	...
	if p != nil { // tautological condition
	}

and:

	if p == nil {
		print(*p) // nil dereference
	}

(It was originally developed within Google's Go analysis framework and
can now be published in a form useful to all analysis drivers.)

This CL also includes buildssa, an Analyzer that constructs SSA for
later analysis passes but does not report diagnostics or facts of its
own.

Change-Id: I27bc4eea10d71d958685a403234879112c21f433
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/142698
Reviewed-by: Michael Matloob <matloob@golang.org>
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README.md

Go Tools

This subrepository holds the source for various packages and tools that support the Go programming language.

Some of the tools, godoc and vet for example, are included in binary Go distributions.

Others, including the Go guru and the test coverage tool, can be fetched with go get.

Packages include a type-checker for Go and an implementation of the Static Single Assignment form (SSA) representation for Go programs.

Download/Install

The easiest way to install is to run go get -u golang.org/x/tools/.... You can also manually git clone the repository to $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/tools.

Report Issues / Send Patches

This repository uses Gerrit for code changes. To learn how to submit changes to this repository, see https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html.

The main issue tracker for the tools repository is located at https://github.com/golang/go/issues. Prefix your issue with “x/tools/(your subdir):” in the subject line, so it is easy to find.