On Sat, 2021-06-19 at 15:31 +0100, Dmitrii Pasechnik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:53:32PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > > > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60798 (project make): > > FWIW, this warning is not valid in this situation. The code is > > correct; p will always be pointing into a valid buffer and never > > pointing at the first character in that buffer, so p[-1] always > > points to valid memory. > > It's undefined behaviour in C to point to such a location, isn't it?
To point to which such location? As I said, we know for a fact that p does not point at the first character of the array. It's clearly legal in C to walk backwards through an array!! And referencing the previous element in an array is certainly not a hack. I don't think I understand.
