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From: Alex Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>, GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: "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>, "Serge Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: Missed warning (-Wuse-after-free)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:23:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b18a74df-d18e-dc82-b001-5ec65e7c6b26@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6edeb3c197c327c1c6639d322c53ec6056039a33.camel@tugraz.at>


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Hi Martin,

On 2/17/23 14:48, Martin Uecker wrote:
>> This new wording doesn't even allow one to use memcmp(3);
>> just reading the pointer value, however you do it, is UB.
> 
> memcmp would not use the pointer value but work
> on the representation bytes and is still allowed.

Hmm, interesting.  It's rather unspecified behavior.  Still 
unpredictable: (memcmp(&p, &p, sizeof(p) == 0) might evaluate to true or 
false randomly; the compiler may compile out the call to memcmp(3), 
since it knows it won't produce any observable behavior.

<https://software.codidact.com/posts/287905>

Cheers!

Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-23 19:23 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
2023-02-17 13:48         ` Martin Uecker
2023-02-23 19:23           ` Alex Colomar [this message]
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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