On 10/6/20 1:52 AM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Aldy Hernandez via Gcc-patches wrote:
Pushed as obvious.

gcc/ChangeLog:

        * value-range.h (irange_allocator::allocate): Increase
        newir storage by one.
---
  gcc/value-range.h | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gcc/value-range.h b/gcc/value-range.h
index 94b48e55e77..7031a823138 100644
--- a/gcc/value-range.h
+++ b/gcc/value-range.h
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ irange_allocator::allocate (unsigned num_pairs)

    struct newir {
      irange range;
-    tree mem[1];
+    tree mem[2];
    };
    size_t nbytes = (sizeof (newir) + sizeof (tree) * 2 * (num_pairs - 1));
    struct newir *r = (newir *) obstack_alloc (&m_obstack, nbytes);

So, we essentially want a flexible array member, which C++ without extension
doesn't have, and thus need to rely on the compiler handling the trailing
array as a poor men's flexible array member (again, GCC does for any size,
but not 100% sure about other compilers, if they e.g. don't handle that way
just size of 1).

The manual documents the [0] extension and mentions but discourages
using [1].  Nothing is said about other sizes and the warnings such
as -Warray-bounds have been increasingly complaining about accesses
past the declared constant bound (it won't complain about past-
the-end accesses to a mem[1], but will about those to mem[2]).

It would be nice if existing GCC code could eventually be converted
to avoid relying on the [1] hack.  I would hope we would avoid making
use of it in new code (and certainly avoid extending its uses to other
sizes).

If it's difficult to write efficient C++ code without relying on
these hacks we are in the perfect position to propose a solution
to C++.  Otherwise, if a portable solution already exists, we
should be able to adopt it.

Martin

Is there any reason why the code is written that way?
I mean, we could just use:
   size_t nbytes = sizeof (irange) + sizeof (tree) * 2 * num_pairs;
   irange *r = (irange *) obstack_alloc (&m_obstack, nbytes);
   return new (r) irange ((tree *) (r + 1), num_pairs);
without any new type.

        Jakub


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