VLA representation in GCC internals

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Martin,

On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 11:34:58AM GMT, Martin Uecker wrote:
> > > You can just eliminate the code for the star as it would now
> > > automatically end up as variable.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Have a lovely day!
> > Alex
> 
> Just committed, so you could rebase on trunk now.

Thanks!  I read your mail just a few seconds before starting the
hours-long regression testing.  Just in time.  :-)

> I also wanted to change zero representation to be the same as
> in the C++ FE, but I need to rethink this.  Maybe this change
> already solves most of our problems.

It should.  Thankfully, I already wrote the tests for when this got
fixed, so that I should only need to comment/uncomment them, so that I
wouldn't need to remember what I needed to test.  So, hopefully this
will work out of the box.  :)

> BTW: My main practical issue with zero-sized arrays is that the
> UB sanitizers triggers for zero-sized variable arrays.

Hmmm.

> 
> Martin

Cheers,
Alex

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