Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc
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Msg-id 29462.1422813159@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> On 02/01/2015 03:56 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>> If you want the compiler to catch this, I don't see any way without
>> requiring the code to indicate specifically which local variables it
>> intends to use, or not using the locals at all by using a seperate
>> cleanup function (as discussed elsewhere in this thread).  With
>> information about the locals you might be able to conjure some GCC
>> macros to set things up to complain if you use anything else.

> I wonder how difficult it would be to teach e.g. clang static analyzer 
> to catch this, rather than the compiler.

Maybe we could interest the Coverity crew in this topic.  Seems like
the kind of thing they should care about.
        regards, tom lane



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