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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc: "Martin Uecker" <uecker@tugraz.at>,
	"Jonathan Wakely" <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>,
	"Alejandro Colomar" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Iker Pedrosa" <ipedrosa@redhat.com>,
	"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	"Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Jₑₙₛ Gustedt" <jens.gustedt@inria.fr>,
	"David Malcolm" <dmalcolm@redhat.com>,
	"Sam James" <sam@gentoo.org>,
	"Yann Droneaud" <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Subject: Re: Missed warning (-Wuse-after-free)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:34:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt5c5sbi.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0049730a-e28c-0e0f-8d92-695395f1ec21@gmail.com> (Alejandro Colomar via Gcc's message of "Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:35:06 +0100")

On Feb 17 2023, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc wrote:

> C2x (N3054 is the latest I know):
>
> If a pointer value is used in an evaluation after
> the object the pointer points to (or just past)
> reaches the end of its lifetime,
> the behavior is undefined.
> <https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3054.pdf#subsection.6.2.4>
>
>
> This new wording doesn't even allow one to use memcmp(3);
> just reading the pointer value, however you do it, is UB.

But memcmp does not read the value, it reads the object representation,
and reading the representation is never UB.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-17 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-16 14:35 Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-16 15:15 ` David Malcolm
2023-02-17  1:04   ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17  1:05     ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17  1:56       ` Sam James
2023-02-17  8:12     ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-17 11:35       ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17 13:34         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2023-02-17 13:48         ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-23 19:23           ` Alex Colomar
2023-02-23 19:57             ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-24  0:02               ` Alex Colomar
2023-02-24  1:21                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2023-02-24  1:42                   ` Alex Colomar
2023-02-24  3:01                     ` Peter Lafreniere
2023-02-24  8:52                       ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-24  8:43                     ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-24 16:10                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2023-02-24  8:36                   ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-24 16:01                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2023-02-24 16:37                       ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-17  3:48   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 11:22     ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17 13:38       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 14:01         ` Mark Wielaard
2023-02-17 14:06           ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 21:20         ` [PATCH] Make -Wuse-after-free=3 the default one in -Wall Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17 21:39           ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 21:41             ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 22:58             ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17 23:03               ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 11:24     ` Missed warning (-Wuse-after-free) Jonathan Wakely
2023-02-17 11:43       ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-02-17 12:04         ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-02-17 12:53       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17 14:10         ` Jonathan Wakely
2023-02-17 13:44     ` David Malcolm
2023-02-17 14:01       ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-02-17  8:49 ` Yann Droneaud

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