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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Ammar Faizi' <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>,
	Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>,
	"Yuan Tan" <tanyuan@tinylab.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Kselftest Mailing List" <linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] tools/nolibc: replace duplicated -ENOSYS return with single -ENOSYS return
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:21:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d52dbd55e6240d5a91ebdce67fe0b7b@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f93ea82-f157-e921-2028-5b4fae4ad341@gnuweeb.org>

From: Ammar Faizi
> Sent: 30 August 2023 15:41
> 
> On 8/28/23 4:51 AM, David Laight wrote:
> > I just found a(nother) clang bug:
> > 	int f(void) { return "a"[2]; }
> > compiles to just a 'return'.
> 
> I don't think that's a bug. It's undefined behavior due to an
> out-of-bound read. What do you expect it to return?

I was actually expecting a warning/error if it didn't just read
the byte after the end of the string.

Just silently doing nothing didn't seem right for a modern compiler.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-30 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-27  8:32 [RFC] tools/nolibc: replace duplicated -ENOSYS return with single -ENOSYS return Zhangjin Wu
2023-08-27  9:17 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2023-08-29  6:29   ` Willy Tarreau
2023-08-30  0:19     ` Zhangjin Wu
2023-08-30  3:25       ` Willy Tarreau
2023-09-01 19:03         ` Zhangjin Wu
2023-09-03  9:31           ` Willy Tarreau
2023-08-27 21:51 ` David Laight
2023-08-28  9:46   ` David Laight
2023-08-29 23:39     ` Zhangjin Wu
2023-08-30 14:40   ` Ammar Faizi
2023-08-30 16:21     ` David Laight [this message]
2023-08-31  7:41       ` Zhangjin Wu
2023-08-31  8:37         ` David Laight
2023-09-01 19:48           ` Zhangjin Wu

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