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From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>
To: Adrian Moreno <amorenoz@redhat.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	 Adrian Moreno via Gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Subject: Re: broken code only when optimized "-O2"
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:36:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9eb235680e05e02f8ac6589a52d1996b3cfc0bb5.camel@mengyan1223.wang> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4813434-f4ba-bbf8-7d1e-71b9a5215315@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 11:34 +0100, Adrian Moreno via Gcc-help wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/22/21 11:27, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > * Adrian Moreno via Gcc-help:
> > 
> > > So here I do not know what the compiler would think about "pos" if
> > > it
> > > happens to point to some invalid stack address.
> > 
> > In such cases, the compiler typically assumes that the code in
> > question
> > is never executed.  This means that the comparison does not need to
> > be
> > performed, among other things.
> > 
> 
> So it wouldn't cause undefined behavior?

It *is* undefined behavior, and the compiler can remove any execution
paths which will eventually hit an undefined behavior.
-- 
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-22 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-21 15:40 Adrian Moreno
2021-12-21 16:05 ` Stefan Ring
2021-12-21 16:13   ` Adrian Moreno
2021-12-21 16:39     ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-12-21 17:05   ` David Brown
2021-12-22  9:24     ` Adrian Moreno
2021-12-22 10:27       ` Florian Weimer
2021-12-22 10:34         ` Adrian Moreno
2021-12-22 10:36           ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2021-12-22 16:05             ` Adrian Moreno
2021-12-22 15:32 ` LIU Hao

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