From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28678 invoked by alias); 22 May 2012 17:42:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 28604 invoked by uid 22791); 22 May 2012 17:42:18 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 May 2012 17:42:04 +0000 From: "jason at gcc dot gnu.org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug c++/53220] [4.7/4.8 Regression] g++ mis-compiles compound literals Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:42:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: c++ X-Bugzilla-Keywords: wrong-code X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: jason at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: 4.8.0 X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg02217.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53220 --- Comment #12 from Jason Merrill 2012-05-22 17:41:45 UTC --- I checked the behavior of clang and icc with the following testcase: extern "C" int printf (const char *,...); struct A { int i; ~A() { printf ("~A()\n"); } }; int main() { for (A *p = (A[]){ 1, 2, 3, 0}; p->i; ++p) { printf("%d\n", p->i); } return 0; } Both compilers match G++ behavior and destroy all the elements of the array before the loop begins; the only difference is that recent G++ is more aggressive about optimizing based on the knowledge that the array is no longer alive. So yes, what remains for this bug is to complain about undefined behavior due to accessing the value of an object after its lifetime has ended.