Re: Pointer subtraction with a null pointer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Pointer subtraction with a null pointer
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Msg-id 20220326180859.iqm6qwywnvtee7o6@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Pointer subtraction with a null pointer  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: Pointer subtraction with a null pointer
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Hi,

On 2022-03-26 10:49:53 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> > It's hard to see how that isn't a flat-out compiler bug.
> 
> It only happens if the NULL is directly passed as an argument to the macro,
> not if there's an intermediary variable. Argh.
> 
> 
> #include <stddef.h>
> 
> #define relptr_store(base, rp, val) \
>      ((rp).relptr_off = ((val) == NULL ? 0 : ((char *) (val)) - (base)))
> 
> typedef union { struct foo *relptr_type; size_t relptr_off; } relptr;
> 
> void
> problem_not_present(relptr *rp, char *base)
> {
>     struct foo *val = NULL;
> 
>     relptr_store(base, *rp, val);
> }
> 
> void
> problem_present(relptr *rp, char *base)
> {
>     relptr_store(base, *rp, NULL);
> }
> 
> 
> Looks like that warning is uttered whenever there's a subtraction from a
> pointer with NULL, even if the code isn't reachable. Which I guess makes
> *some* sense, outside of macros it's not something that'd ever be reasonable.

Reported as https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54570

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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