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Re: Aggressive load in gcc when accessing escaped pointer?
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: Cy Cheng <cycheng dot buddhist at gmail dot com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:51:54 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Aggressive load in gcc when accessing escaped pointer?
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Hi,
On Sat, 19 Mar 2016, Cy Cheng wrote:
> But I don't understand why &c - 8 is invalid? Which rule in C99 it volatile?
&x points to the start of object x, and &x - something (something != 0)
points outside object x. 'c' was a complete object, so &c-8 points
outside any object, hence the formation of that pointer is already
invalid (as is its dereference).
Ciao,
Michael.