[Bug tree-optimization/63445] [5 Regression] request: make -Wstrict-overflow avoid a class of false positives
rguenther at suse dot de
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Tue Oct 7 14:01:00 GMT 2014
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63445
--- Comment #5 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> ---
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, manu at gcc dot gnu.org wrote:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63445
>
> --- Comment #4 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> > i_15 could be negative and thus j_9 - i_15 could well overflow the input
> > range at the +INF side. (i_15 is [-INF, j_5(D) + -1])
>
> Actually, this is a very good point. There is indeed a potential integer
> overflow in the original code. Thus, the warning seems valid.
>
> Perhaps the warning message could say that the problem is that "j - i" can
> overflow if i is negative.
Sure - but we warn about the comparison against zero which doesn't
behave differently if overflow wraps or is undefined.
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