Okay for google/gcc-4_6.

Ollie

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Delesley Hutchins <deles...@google.com> wrote:
>
> Le-Chun added the additional routine to remove pointers from a set;
> that code is unique to annotalysis.  I can't easily include a test
> case, because the bug is difficult to trigger.  It occurs only when
> there is a hash collision between two pointers in the set, and the
> first pointer is removed before the second.  I do have a test case,
> but it will only work for my particular build on my machine, since the
> actual pointer addresses involved will change as soon as you touch
> something.  I could write a unit test using bogus pointer values that
> are engineered to trigger a collision, but it wouldn't be a normal
> compiler test case; where would I put it?
>
>  -DeLesley
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 16:13, Delesley Hutchins <deles...@google.com> 
> > wrote:
> >> This patch fixes a bug in pointer_set.c, where removing a pointer from
> >> a pointer set would corrupt the hash table if the pointer was involved
> >> in any hash collisions.
> >
> > Could you include a test case?  It's not clear to me what you are
> > fixing and when this happens.  Is this a bug in trunk as well?  The
> > pointer-set implementation has been around for a while, so I'm
> > surprised that you are running into this now.  Or is this something
> > that only happens with the pointer set changes we have in for
> > annotalysis?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.  Diego.
> >
>
>
>
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