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@startuml
skinparam monochrome true
title Creation of files with warnings

start;
while (iterate over Translation units)
    :Translation unit;
    ->
    :Clang frontend;
    ->build AST and build CFG;
    :Clang frontend - Clang Static Analyzer stage;
    ->build Exploded Graph(symbolic execution of CFG);
    while (iterate over called functions)
        if (function in GC FUNCTION LIST)
            :Apply path-sensitive checker for detection usage
            raw pointers of ObjectHeader after calling the function:
            - detect and mark memory regions for ObjectHeader
            - in case of calling function from GC FUNCTION LIST, mark regions as not safe
            - in case if it is a store to raw pointer - mark it as safe
            - in case of reading from them(except cast to bool) generate warning;
        endif
    endwhile
    :Write warnings to the file;
endwhile
stop;
@enduml