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From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation Update.
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 08:56:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16691824-7348-53b7-0f85-1dabd7a1a924@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63dbed50.a70a0220.3e5e5.24a2@mx.google.com>



On 2/2/23 10:05, Kees Cook via Gcc-patches wrote:

> 
> Right -- this can lead (at least) to type confusion and other problems
> too. We've been trying to remove all of these overlaps in the Linux
> kernel. I mention it the "Overlapping composite structure members"
> section at https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
Good.  We found several of these when Martin S was doing his work on the 
diagnostics a few years back.  It wasn't hard to see what the intent 
was, but it struck me as a poor (ab)use of the feature and that I 
wouldn't be surprised if compilers might differ in their semantics 
around this stuff.

jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-03 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-31 14:11 [PATCH 0/2]PR101832: Handle component_ref to a structure/union field including flexible array member for builtin_object_size Qing Zhao
2023-01-31 14:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] Handle component_ref to a structre/union field including flexible array member [PR101832] Qing Zhao
2023-02-01 11:41   ` Richard Biener
2023-02-01 14:19     ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-02  8:07       ` Richard Biener
2023-02-02 13:52         ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-02 13:54           ` Richard Biener
2023-02-02 14:38             ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-03  7:49               ` Richard Biener
2023-02-03 13:17                 ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-06  9:31                   ` Richard Biener
2023-02-06 14:38                     ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-06 23:14                       ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-07 14:54                         ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-07 19:17                           ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-07 19:57                             ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-07 23:37                               ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-08 15:06                                 ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-08 19:09                                   ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-08 19:20                                     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-08 20:51                                       ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-08 22:53                                       ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-08 23:18                                     ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-09 14:40                                       ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-09 16:46                                         ` Kees Cook
2023-02-10 15:25                                           ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-09 10:35                                   ` Richard Biener
2023-02-09 13:44                                     ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-07 15:28                         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-07 15:38                           ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-01 16:48   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-01 18:20     ` Qing Zhao
2023-01-31 14:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] Documentation Update Qing Zhao
2023-02-01 16:55   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-01 18:24     ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-01 18:57       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-01 19:19         ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-02  8:33         ` Richard Biener
2023-02-02 14:31           ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-02 17:05             ` Kees Cook
2023-02-03 15:56               ` Jeff Law [this message]
2023-02-03  4:25           ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-03 14:52             ` Qing Zhao
2023-02-03 20:55             ` Joseph Myers
2023-02-03 22:38               ` Qing Zhao

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