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

[Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
>
> In addition, I found a number of places where minor tweaks to what data
> Sparse keeps around can make a compiler writer's life much easier; for
> example, keeping more type data makes finding the type of a pseudo much
> easier. There's a combined patch shipped with Clue that fixes and
> enhances a bunch of this stuff:
>
> http://cluecc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cluecc/clue/sparse.patch?revision=34&view=markup

I think some of your patch already went into sparse. If there are some
missing. Feel free to submit it again.

> (In fact, if you're generating llvm assembly directly, you may find it
> easier just to add a backend to Clue rather than write your own, er,
> middle-end --- a lot of the simplifications Clue does for languages like
> Javascript also apply to llvm bitcode.)

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

> <plug> Did I mention that Clue is now converting C into Java source that
> runs at 40% of compiled C? </plug>

Oh really, Java?

Chris