From: Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>,
GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new type attribute always_alias (PR79671)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 08:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1704070958330.30715@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59cad987-433b-dcb2-13d9-e23bb8d8912a@redhat.com>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/06/2017 09:16 PM, Richard Biener wrote:
> > On April 6, 2017 8:12:29 PM GMT+02:00, Bernd Edlinger
> > <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de> wrote:
> > > But isn't the effective type changed by the assignment b[1] = 0;
> > > as described in 6.5(6):
> > > "If a value is stored into an object having no declared type through an
> > > lvalue having a type that is not a character type, then the type of the
> > > lvalue becomes the effective type of the object for that access and for
> > > subsequent accesses that do not modify the stored value."
> >
> > Yes. I think the example is valid. At least GCCs memory model makes it so.
>
> As far as I understand the standard, C does not permit changing the effective
> type of an object if it has a declared type (at least not without a union).
> If GCC supports it, that's an undocumented GCC extension.
The GCC middle-end supports it because C++ supports it and there is no
way for the C FE to tell the middle-end that this is not valid.
Richard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-07 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-05 9:46 Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 13:28 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-05 15:20 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 17:41 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 20:18 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-05 20:46 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 22:54 ` Pedro Alves
2017-04-06 10:08 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-06 7:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 15:27 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 15:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-05 14:50 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-05 15:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-05 15:38 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 16:03 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-05 16:08 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-05 17:23 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 21:02 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-05 23:17 ` Sandra Loosemore
2017-04-06 5:40 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 7:47 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 7:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 7:55 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 14:11 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 14:17 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 14:23 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 14:43 ` Jonathan Wakely
2017-04-06 14:51 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 15:05 ` Jakub Jelinek
2017-04-06 15:10 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 19:13 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 10:43 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-11 10:48 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 17:39 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 17:48 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 18:12 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 18:19 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 18:49 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 19:05 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-06 19:20 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 6:47 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 12:58 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 19:16 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 6:56 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-07 8:01 ` Richard Biener [this message]
2017-04-06 19:14 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 19:51 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-06 14:22 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 21:00 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 6:54 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 13:37 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 15:10 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-07 15:33 ` Bernd Edlinger
2017-04-07 20:22 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 12:50 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-10 14:41 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 15:31 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-10 16:35 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-11 10:32 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 11:53 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 13:35 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-11 18:47 ` Jason Merrill
2017-04-10 21:40 ` Pedro Alves
2017-04-11 7:37 ` Richard Biener
2017-04-06 20:20 ` Bernd Edlinger
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