std::string add nullptr attribute

Jonny Grant jg@jguk.org
Mon Feb 20 11:44:31 GMT 2023



On 20/02/2023 11:18, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, Gabriel Ravier via Gcc-help wrote:
> 
>> This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder why there isn't some kind of `__builtin_unreachable_do_not_optimize()` builtin that allows one to mark places in code that should never be reached and should thus be warned about if such a thing happens while at the same time never doing any optimization on the basis of the presence of the call.
> 
> -fsanitize=unreachable -fsanitize=null and others prevent the kind of optimization you are worried about.
> 

Unfortunately santizer is only at runtime. I'm seeking build time warnings. Sharing my example:
https://godbolt.org/z/c7b17nMGd

Execution build compiler returned: 0
Program returned: 139
/app/example.cpp:4:10: runtime error: load of null pointer of type 'const char'

Regards, Jonny


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