On Gwe, 2005-10-28 at 03:30 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> gcc is dumb, it doesn't realise that the variable will be filled by another
> function if its passed thus..
>
> unsigned long foo
> bar(&foo)
> if (foo==1)
> ...
>
> With bar() filling in content of foo.
> I believe there's at least once instance of this in gcc bugzilla.
gcc is a *LOT* smarter than you give it credit for. It will not warn for
cases where it isn't able to tell how foo is used passed with &foo. It
will warn for cases where it can
Compile the following program with and without -O2 and you'll see just
how smart gcc actually is
#include <stdio.h>
static void bar(char *x) {
*x = 1;
}
static void baz(char *x) {
printf("Wombat\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char x,y;
bar(&x);
baz(&y);
printf("%c,%c\n", x, y);
}
So I'd go look deeper for real bugs
Alan
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