| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: longjmp clobber warnings are utterly broken in modern gcc |
| Date: | 2015-02-01 17:52:39 |
| Message-ID: | 29462.1422813159@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)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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