[Bug c/57821] 'array is too large' error is missing when sizetype overflows

[dave.anglin at bell dot net]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57821

--- Comment #9 from dave.anglin at bell dot net ---
On 25-Jul-13, at 6:56 AM, amylaar at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:

> hwint.h says that HOST_WIDE_INT should be 64 bit when targeting a  
> machine with
> 64 bit size_t.  You can insure that by setting need_64bit_hwint in
> gcc/config.gcc / libcpp/configure.ac .  Although the former has a  
> different
> description what it's for.  So either the comment there is lacking, or
> the comment in hwint.h just says how to paper over bugs in various (?)
> places in the compiler that don't use the highpart of an INTEGER_CST  
> for
> what it's for.

The 32-bit linux and hpux targets have a 32-bit size_t and the error  
occurs with a
native build.

Dave
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John David Anglin    dave.anglin@bell.net