RFC: Jump to const_int

John David Anglin dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Fri Jan 12 19:40:00 GMT 2001


> I found the following testcase fails (991213-3.c) with the above abort:
> 
> int jump () { goto * (int (*) ()) 0xbabebec0; }

One further thought.  The test looks bogus to me because the address
clearly can't be in the current function.  Thus, the behavior of such
a jump is totally unpredictable.

Gcc allows as an extension goto's to any void * expression.  Thus, the
above is accepted but it will clearly cause problems when edges are
to be calculated.

Dave
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