17078 – [3.4 regression] Jump into if(0)-substatement fails (original) (raw)

Description Paul Woegerer 2004-08-18 11:05:45 UTC

On GCC 3.4.1 the following goto example generates wrong code.

On GCC 3.3.3 the return vale of this example is 1 as it should be according to ANSI C "... If the first substatement is reached via a label, the second substatment is not executed ..." (see 6.6.4.1).

It looks to me that cfg_cleanup or some reachability test is not taking into account that the if(0)-basic-block is entered via the label and behaves too optimistic in elimiating it.

int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i = 0; goto useless; if(0) { useless: i = 1; } else { i = 2; } return i; }

Comment 1 Volker Reichelt 2004-08-18 12:00:29 UTC

Confirmed.

Remarks:

This only happens with -O0.
The return value is not even 0 or 2, but 16.

Comment 2 Paul Woegerer 2004-08-19 07:26:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

Confirmed.

Remarks:

This only happens with -O0.

The return value is not even 0 or 2, but 16.

With -O0 i also get return value 16. But with -O2, -O3 and -Os i get 164 as return value.

I used GCC 3.4.1 in the following configuration: Reading specs from /usr/local/gcc-3.4.1-native/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.1/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.4.1-native Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.1

Comment 3 Paul Woegerer 2004-08-19 07:54:11 UTC

Subject: Re: [3.4 regression] Jump into if( 0) -substatement fails

Morning Tal,

So i was wrong yesterday when i said something is wrong with the header files. Something is wrong with the compiler. Is this bug already reported to GNUs bugzilla?

Paul

"paul dot woegerer at nsc dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> 08/19/2004 09:26 AM Please respond to gcc-bugzilla

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into if(0) -substatement fails

------- Additional Comments From paul dot woegerer at nsc dot com 2004-08-19 07:26 ------- (In reply to comment #1)

Confirmed.

Remarks:

This only happens with -O0.

The return value is not even 0 or 2, but 16.

With -O0 i also get return value 16. But with -O2, -O3 and -Os i get 164 as return value.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17078

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Comment 4 Volker Reichelt 2004-08-19 10:21:42 UTC

With -O0 i also get return value 16. But with -O2, -O3 and -Os i get 164 as return value.

Hmm. With the C frontend I only get wrong numbers with -O0. With the C++ frontend I get wrong numbers for all optimizations: -O0 -O1 -O2 -O3 -Os. (I mostly get zeros, but that's not a contradiction to the 164 mentioned above, since there's probably some uninitialized memory involved).

Anyway, GCC is at fault here.

Comment 5 Mark Mitchell 2004-08-22 23:50:21 UTC

Roger, this looks to be a bug in expand_unreachable_stmt.

In particular, it looks like the return statement is never expanded because it is considered unreachable due to the earlier goto. However, since the then-clause of the if-statment falls off the bottom, the return-statement becomes reachable again. Here, expand_unreachable_if_stmt should be returning true, but instead returns false.

I've assigned this bug to you.

Comment 7 Drea Pinski 2004-08-24 04:09:43 UTC

Fixed.