[PATCH] Fix the damage done by my other patch from yesterday to strlenopt-49.c

Bernd Edlinger bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de
Tue Jul 31 12:23:00 GMT 2018


On 07/30/18 15:03, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is how I would like to handle the over length strings issue in the C FE.
>> If the string constant is exactly the right length and ends in one explicit
>> NUL character, shorten it by one character.
>>
>> I thought Martin would be working on it,  but as this is a really simple fix,
>> I would dare to send it to gcc-patches anyway, hope you don't mind...
>>
>> The patch is relative to the other patch here: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-07/msg01800.html
>>
>>
>> Bootstrapped and reg-tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
>> Is it OK for trunk?
> 
> I'll leave this to FE maintainers but can I ask you to verify the
> (other) FEs do not leak this kind of invalid initializers to the
> middle-end?  I suggest to put this verification in
> output_constructor which otherwise happily truncates initializers
> with excess size.  There's also gimplification which might elide
> a = { "abcd", "cdse" }; to  a.x = "abcd"; a.y = "cdse"; but
> hopefully there the GIMPLE verifier (verify_gimple_assign_single)
> verifies this - well, it only dispatches to useless_type_conversion_p
> (lhs_type, rhs1_type) for this case, but non-flexarrays should be
> handled fine there.
> 

Okay, this is what I am currently playing with.
There is still a major fault in the fortran FE, but I believe sanitizing
the middle-end is worth it....

IMHO sanitizing should have priority over new optimizations :(


Thanks
Bernd.
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