From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>,
Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Subject: Re: glibc misc/sys/cdefs.h nonull - typo in comment
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 08:38:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cywtvs7r.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84e4081c-35ef-4f2d-89d0-0fea04732737@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 28 Oct 2023 22:24:14 -0700")
* Paul Eggert:
> The April 2023 working draft of C23 has adjusted the wording to be the
> following, and I expect POSIX to follow suit eventually. Notice the new
> restrictions:
>
> "If an argument to a function has an invalid value (such as a value
> outside the domain of the function, or a pointer outside the address
> space of the program, or a null pointer, or a pointer to non-modifiable
> storage when the corresponding parameter is not const-qualified) or a
> type (after default argument promotion) not expected by a function with
> a variable number of arguments, the behavior is undefined.
>
> "If a function argument is described as being an array, the pointer
> actually passed to the function shall have a value such that all address
> computations and accesses to objects (that would be valid if the pointer
> did point to the first element of such an array) are in fact valid.[210]
>
> "[210] This includes, for example, passing a valid pointer that points
> one-past-the-end of an array along with a size of 0, or using any valid
> pointer with a size of 0."
I'm not sure if these are new restrictions. Doesn't this make
previously undefined behavior when calling strncmp with shorter
strings defined?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-01 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-11 9:09 Jonny Grant
2023-04-11 13:39 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-04-12 15:56 ` Jonny Grant
2023-04-12 16:26 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-04-12 16:31 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-10-28 23:50 ` Jonny Grant
2023-10-29 5:24 ` Paul Eggert
2023-10-29 22:43 ` Jonny Grant
2023-10-30 9:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-10-30 10:10 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-12-03 22:09 ` Jonny Grant
2023-11-01 7:38 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2023-11-01 19:30 ` Paul Eggert
2023-11-01 19:52 ` Jonny Grant
2023-11-01 20:05 ` Florian Weimer
2023-11-01 20:16 ` Jonny Grant
2023-11-01 20:06 ` Florian Weimer
2023-04-12 17:28 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
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