From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kamil Iskra To: Geoff Keating Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Array out of bounds warning Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:59:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00065.html On 2 Aug 2000, Geoff Keating wrote: > > 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? [snip] > The behaviour is rendered undefined by the ISO C standard. Right. Found it. Thanks. In real-life situations, even if such tricks are used in the code, they usually involve variable indices, and thus no warning will be generated. Hence, there shouldn't be a problem. -- / Kamil Iskra kamil@wins.uva.nl \ | Section Computational Science, Faculty FNWI, Universiteit van Amsterdam | | tel. +31 20 525 75 35 fax. +31 20 525 74 90 | \ Kruislaan 403 room F.202 1098 SJ Amsterdam (NL) /