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Add QLDoc explaining reverseRead
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@@ -244,6 +244,13 @@ module MakeConsistency<
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private predicate hasPost(Node n) { exists(PostUpdateNode post | post.getPreUpdateNode() = n) }
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/**
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* Consider code like `a.b.f = source()`. There is flow from `source()` to
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* `[post] a.b` (with an appropriate access path), but we also want there to
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* be flow to `[post] a` (with an appropriate access path). The data flow
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* library is able to infer this step because there is a read step from `a`
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* to `a.b`, as long as the post-update node for `a` exists.
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*/
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query predicate reverseRead(Node n, string msg) {
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exists(Node n2 | readStep(n, _, n2) and hasPost(n2) and not hasPost(n)) and
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not Input::reverseReadExclude(n) and
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