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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: <paulkoning@comcast.net>, GCC Development <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: not computable at load time
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 16:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1805311622260.2935@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc3H4s85r28CDQJcfR8maXcY3=OYe6SX=OAnNnDRMU6w1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 29 May 2018, Richard Biener wrote:

> The testcase dates back to some repository creation rev. (egcs?) and
> I'm not sure we may compute the difference of addresses of structure
> members.  So that GCC accepts this is probably not required.  Joseph
> may have a definitive answer here.

My model of constant expressions for GNU C says this sort of subtraction 
(of two address constants based on the same object or function address) is 
a symbolic difference constant expression, which should be accepted as 
constant in initializers as an extension; it should be folded like other 
offsetof-like constructs.  That should not depend on whether the result 
gets converted to a type of different width.

However, the result of converting an address constant pointer to an 
integer type is only expected to be a constant expression if the resulting 
type *is* the same width as pointers.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-31 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-25 18:05 Paul Koning
2018-05-28  9:03 ` Richard Biener
2018-05-28 15:53   ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-28 16:03     ` Richard Biener
2018-05-28 18:34       ` Paul Koning
2018-05-29  9:49         ` Richard Biener
2018-05-29 13:35           ` Paul Koning
2018-05-29 13:53           ` Jeff Law
2018-05-31 16:26           ` Joseph Myers [this message]

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