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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:59:39 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: build musl with clang

* agent <agentprog@...il.com> [2012-08-24 18:22:11 +0600]:
> p with negative subscript and tried the following:
> 
> void *f1() {
> char *p;
> int i;
> 
> p = malloc(100);
> if (p[-1])
> p[0] = 0;
> 
> return p;
> }
> 
> and that's i we get:
> 
> f1: # @f1
> # BB#0: # %if.end
> subl $12, %esp
> movl $100, (%esp)
> calll malloc
> movb $0, (%eax)
> addl $12, %esp
> ret
> 
> but if we have if (p && p[-1]) -- 'if' is not optimized out.

now that seems wrong (if it was compiled with -ffreestanding)

'if (p[-1])' is dropped even though malloc can put there anything

this should be reported to the clang list

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