RE: [PATCH v5 0/2] Remove false-positive VLAs when using max()

[David Laight]

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 16 March 2018 17:29
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:47 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > If you want to catch stack frames which have unbounded size,
> > -Werror=stack-usage=1000 or -Werror=vla-larger-than=1000 (with the constant
> > adjusted as needed) might be the better approach.
> 
> No, we want to catch *variable* stack sizes.
> 
> Does "-Werror=vla-larger-than=0" perhaps work for that? No, because
> the stupid compiler says that is "meaningless".
> 
> And no, using "-Werror=vla-larger-than=1" doesn't work either, because
> the moronic compiler continues to think that "vla" is about the
> _type_, not the code:
> 
>    t.c: In function âtestâ:
>    t.c:6:6: error: argument to variable-length array is too large
> [-Werror=vla-larger-than=]
>      int array[(1,100)];
> 
> Gcc people are crazy.
> 
> Is there really no way to just say "shut up about the stupid _syntax_
> issue that is entirely irrelevant, and give us the _code_ issue".

I looked at the generated code for one of the constant sized VLA that
the compiler barfed at.
It seemed to subtract constants from %sp separately for the VLA.
So it looks like the compiler treats them as VLA even though it
knows the size.
That is probably missing optimisation.

	David