Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 17:05:48 EST

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:36:32PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:09:10PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 2) Add -ffreestanding to the CFLAGS of arch/ppc/kernel/prom.o (If this
> > optimization comes back on with this flag later on, it would be a
> > compiler bug, yes?)
>
> No. You still have the problem of using pointer arithmetic past
> one past the end of the object.

Well, the problem is that we aren't running where the compiler thinks we
are yet. So what would the right fix be for this?

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