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From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] expression: examine constness of __builtin_offsetof at evaluation only
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 02:57:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160126015708.GG46188@macpro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r3h5eman.fsf@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:00:48PM +0100, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Currently, the determination of a __builtin_offsetof() expressions'
> constness flags is done in two steps:
> - Several flags are speculatively set at expression parsing time
> - and possibly cleared again at evaluation if the member expression
>   includes a non-const array index like in
>     __builtin_offsetof(struct A, a.b[non_const_foo])
> 
> For consistency with other expression types' evaluation, defer the
> determination of a __builtin_offsetof() expression's constness to
> evaluation time, too.
> 
> Furthermore, carry an array index expression's constness flags
> through the implicit cast to size_t type.

Better to split this into two patches.
 
> @@ -3028,13 +3026,18 @@ static struct symbol *evaluate_offsetof(struct expression *expr)
>  		} else {
>  			struct expression *idx = expr->index, *m;
>  			struct symbol *i_type = evaluate_expression(idx);
> +			unsigned old_idx_flags;
>  			int i_class = classify_type(i_type, &i_type);
> +
>  			if (!is_int(i_class)) {
>  				expression_error(expr, "non-integer index");
>  				return NULL;
>  			}
>  			unrestrict(idx, i_class, &i_type);
> +			old_idx_flags = idx->flags;
>  			idx = cast_to(idx, size_t_ctype);
> +			idx->flags |= old_idx_flags;
> +			expr_flags_decay_consts(&idx->flags);
>  			m = alloc_const_expression(expr->pos,
>  						   bits_to_bytes(ctype->bit_size));
>  			m->ctype = size_t_ctype;

It's not clear at all to me why this is needed.
Why cast_to() can't set itself the right value for idx->flags?


Luc

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-25 14:47 [PATCH v2 00/13] improve constexpr handling Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 14:49 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] expression: introduce additional expression constness tracking flags Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 21:51   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26 15:26     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26 15:37       ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 14:51 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] expression: examine constness of casts at evaluation only Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 22:02   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26 16:11     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 14:52 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] expression: examine constness of binops and alike " Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  0:14   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26 15:50     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26 17:24       ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-27 10:42         ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-27 18:00           ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26  0:59   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 14:53 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] expression: examine constness of preops " Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:10   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 14:55 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] expression: examine constness of conditionals " Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:16   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] expression, evaluate: add support for recognizing address constants Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:27   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26  3:10   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 14:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] evaluate: check static storage duration objects' intializers' constness Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:42   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26 16:08     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26 17:56       ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-26 20:18         ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-02-01  3:00     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 14:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] expression: recognize references to labels as address constants Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:45   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 15:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] expression: examine constness of __builtin_offsetof at evaluation only Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  1:57   ` Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]
2016-02-01  3:06     ` Nicolai Stange
2016-01-25 15:02 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] symbol: flag builtins constant_p, safe_p and warning as constexprs Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  2:00   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 15:03 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] evaluate: relax some constant expression rules for pointer expressions Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  2:05   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 15:04 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] expression, evaluate: support compound literals as address constants Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  2:07   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] symbol: do not inherit storage modifiers from base types at examination Nicolai Stange
2016-01-26  2:54   ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 21:01 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] improve constexpr handling Luc Van Oostenryck
2016-01-25 21:26   ` Nicolai Stange

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