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RE: c/9762: Address of 'char' is incorrect.
- From: "Stephen Kennedy" <Stephen dot Kennedy at havok dot com>
- To: nobody at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: gcc-prs at gcc dot gnu dot org,
- Date: 20 Feb 2003 18:36:00 -0000
- Subject: RE: c/9762: Address of 'char' is incorrect.
- Reply-to: "Stephen Kennedy" <Stephen dot Kennedy at havok dot com>
The following reply was made to PR c/9762; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Stephen Kennedy" <Stephen dot Kennedy at havok dot com>
To: "'Neil Booth'" <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
Cc: <gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org>,
<debian-gcc at lists dot debian dot org>
Subject: RE: c/9762: Address of 'char' is incorrect.
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:32:19 -0000
OK, the C standard does not say that this should work, so you
can consider this bug closed.
However, given knowledge of the calling convention of a
particular machine, you can do neat things such as dynamic
function binding. See www.drizzle.com/~scottb/gdc/fubi-paper.htm
for instance.
I've since changed to using assembly, but why does gcc
return the address of a temp when 'a' is a char and not
when 'a' is an int?
Surprised, not unhappy,
Stephen.
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> > In the example below, '&a' is the address of a local
> copy of 'a' not of 'a'.
> > if the type of 'a' is changed to int, it works as expected.
>
> Works as who expected? Where is the bug? Please quote which part of
> the C standard is violated. You got an address, why are you unhappy?
>
> Neil.
>
> > #define TA char
> > #define TB int
> > #define TC int
> >
> > void foobar(TA a, TB b, TC c);
> >
> > int main()
> > {
> > foobar(1,2,3);
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > void foobar(TA a, TB b, TC c)
> > {
> > printf("a == %i claims %x\n", a, &a);
> > printf("a == %i really %x\n", (&b)[-1], (&b)-1);
> > printf("b == %i %x\n", b, &b);
> > printf("c == %i %x\n", c, &c);
> > }
>