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Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add a subset of -Warray-bounds warnings to C/C++ front ends
From: "Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-04-04 9:41:52
Message-ID: 84fc9c000804040241l98b2f6esd052290fa66b4303 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Simon Baldwin <simonb@google.com> wrote:
> Attached below is a modest patch to provide a subset of the -Warray-bounds
> warnings from tree-vrp.c in the C and C++ front ends. This permits the
> compiler to warn about egregious array bounds violations in unoptimized
> compilations or compilations that may use -fno-tree-vrp. At present, array
> bounds checking is only done on optimized compilations.
>
> A side effect of copying these warnings up into the language frontends is
> that warnings are now printed even if the array access is in dead or
> inaccessible code.
>
> The current array bounds tests are modified to account for this new checking,
> and additionally there are two new tests for warnings from -O0 compilations,
> one for C and one for C++.
>
> Bootstrapped, and regression tested on i686 Linux for gcc and g++.
>
> Thoughts? Okay for trunk?
I think it is a good thing to move these to the frontends. Did you test
the warning on some real-world C and C++ code? I expect some
"false" positives from deliberately partial dead code coming from
template instantiation or constant propagation from function arguments.
Thanks,
Richard.
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