| // g++ 1.37.1 bug 900227_01 |
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| // g++ allows pointer type values to be converted to integral types which are |
| // not actually large enough to hold the converted values. |
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| // Section 3.3.4 of the ANSI C standard says: |
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| // A pointer may be converted to an integral type. The size of the |
| // integer required and the results are implementation defined. If |
| // the space provided is not long enough, the behavior is undefined. |
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| // I believe that the only proper thing to do in such cases is to generate |
| // errors. After all, if the converted value gets truncated, it is not |
| // likely to be useful after that. |
| |
| // Furthermore, as the following example demonstrates, allowing pointers |
| // to be converted to integral types which are not of sufficient size to |
| // completely hold the converted values may cause additional troubles. |
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| // I tried the following code on 5 different machines and it failed on |
| // all five (unless I also use the GNU assembler and the GNU linker). Three |
| // of the five (Sun3, Sun4, and Symmetry) got link-time errors about byte |
| // offset overflows. The other two (368/SystemV and AViiON) got assembly |
| // time errors about relocatable names used in "constant" expressions. |
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| // keywords: casts, pointer types, integral types |
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| // Update 2/10/95: The compiler will now compute these expressions at |
| // runtime. I think this is in the spirit of the GNU compilers (jason). |
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| // Special g++ Options: |
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| int main (); |
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| short s = (short) &main; |
| char c = (char) &main; |
| |
| int main () { return 0; } |
