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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:55:02 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:29:16AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> t.c: In function ‘test’:
> t.c:6:6: error: argument to variable-length array is too large
> [-Werror=vla-larger-than=]
> int array[(1,100)];
>
> Gcc people are crazy.
That's not them, that's C standard regarding ICE. 1,100 is *not* a
constant expression as far as the standard is concerned, and that
type is actually a VLA with the size that can be optimized into
a compiler-calculated value.
Would you argue that in
void foo(char c)
{
int a[(c<<1) + 10 - c + 2 - c];
a is not a VLA? Sure, compiler probably would be able to reduce
that expression to 12, but demanding that to be recognized means
that compiler must do a bunch of optimizations in the middle of
typechecking.
expr, constant_expression is not a constant_expression. And in
this particular case the standard is not insane - the only reason
for using that is typechecking and _that_ can be achieved without
violating 6.6p6:
sizeof(expr,0) * 0 + ICE
*is* an integer constant expression, and it gives you exact same
typechecking. So if somebody wants to play odd games, they can
do that just fine, without complicating the logics for compilers...
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