detecting integer overflows
Oleg Endo
oleg.endo@t-online.de
Tue Oct 30 08:55:00 GMT 2012
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 01:09 -0600, Michael Buro wrote:
> Recently I came across http://embed.cs.utah.edu/ioc/ which describes a
> sophisticated integer overflow checker for Clang. The reported results
> obtained by analyzing C/C++ open source projects make a convincing
> case for implementing such functionality in gcc/g++ as well. Is
> somebody looking into this?
Not sure, but we've still got a half-broken -ftrapv :)
E.g. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35412
Or like on SH, some of the arithmetic ops get expanded to libcalls and
some (afair SImode plus and minus) end up as normal ops.
Cheers,
Oleg
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