[Bug c/33024] gcc allows negatively-sized arrays

[drow at false dot org]

------- Comment #10 from drow at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-08-08 18:51 -------
Subject: Re:  gcc allows negatively-sized arrays

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:34:47PM -0000, sdyoung at miranda dot org wrote:
> main() {
>   int y = 0xFFFFFFFD;
>   int x[y];
> }

This is roughly equivalent to malloc (4GB).  There is no requirement
on a C compiler to generate code for runtime bounds checking, and it
does not.


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