From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: "Steven J. Magnani" <steve@digidescorp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au,
dan.j.williams@intel.com
Subject: Re: Buggy variable-length array code...or compiler?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:23:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100225232345.GA16671@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267139849.3079.68.camel@iscandar.digidescorp.com>
IIRC C99 allows VLAs to not be freed immediately, but at function
termination, which makes things way simpler to implement for compilers.
I've noticed it on Solaris and cell's spugcc.
Steven J. Magnani, le Thu 25 Feb 2010 17:17:29 -0600, a écrit :
> 1. There is a coding error in dmatest
It needs to get out of the function from times to times to free the
VLAs.
> 2. There is a bug specific to Microblaze gcc compiler(s) [mine is 4.1.2]
> 3. There is a bug generic to specific versions of gcc compilers
> 4. There is a bug generic to all gcc compilers
I've usually seen gcc free VLAs as soon as possible, so I believe it's
only a few targets.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 23:17 Steven J. Magnani
2010-02-25 23:23 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2010-02-25 23:46 ` David Rientjes
2010-02-26 10:27 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-02-26 19:15 ` Steven J. Magnani
2010-02-26 19:43 ` Dan Williams
2010-02-26 0:46 ` J.A. Magallón
2010-02-26 17:43 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-26 18:52 ` Steven J. Magnani
2010-02-26 10:11 ` Dan Carpenter
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