Re: `char * s = "abc";' causes compile to crash with a segfault

[David Given <dg@cowlark.com>]

Christopher Li wrote:
[...]
> I think some of your patch already went into sparse. If there are some
> missing. Feel free to submit it again.

The bulk of it's the byte-size patch, which has already made it in, and 
the rest is Clue-specific tweaks (like keeping type information in 
pseudos, and so on).

[...]
> If every back end needs to do those "simplifications", that means sparse
> should be fixed to do it right.

Actually that stuff's in Clue rather than in the patch --- things like 
ultra-simple register allocation, flattening Sparse's parse tree to 
Clue's backend model, etc. None of this really makes sense for anything 
involving a real compiler (for example, Clue assumes you have an 
infinite number of registers available).

In fact, now I think of it, Clue also has a rather intrinsic assumption 
that sizeof(int) == sizeof(char) == 1, which means it wouldn't work with 
llvm out of the box. It may be productive to rip off some of the code, 
though.

-- 
David Given
dg@cowlark.com