Re: Array out of bounds warning

[Kamil Iskra <kamil@wins.uva.nl>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   > int a[10];
>   > a[10] = 17;
[snip]
> The next question in my mind is how often do we get false hits on the
> warning.

I've been wondering: what will the proposed patch do for n-dimensional
arrays, say:

int a[10][10];
a[0][10]=17;

I think right now the code will generate a warning, but is this what we
want?

I'm not entirely sure whether the standard does allow such a construction,
but surely it has a well defined meaning, given that the memory layout of
arrays is precisely defined in the standard. I've seen such a code only
yesterday, where it was used for speed reasons, so it's probably not an
uncommon trick.

Regards,

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