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Re: mips address+symbol issue.

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
Cc: cgd at broadcom dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,rsandifo at redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:44:39 -0500
Subject: Re: mips address+symbol issue.
References: <yov5zncee5x0.fsf@ldt-sj3-010.sj.broadcom.com> <m3isj22wz6.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> <yov5vfn2e54w.fsf@ldt-sj3-010.sj.broadcom.com> <m3ad4e2wh0.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

(My understanding is that the C standard doesn't even permit you to
form the address of an out-of-bounds array access.  Doing so moves you
out of the range of standardized behaviour, and no promises are made.)

Ian


That's correct, with the odd exception that you can point just past
the end of an array, and get a valid pointer value that can be
compared with any pointer within the array (it's larger :-) but
cannot be dereferenced. At least that's my understanding!

References:
- mips address+symbol issue.
  - From: cgd
- Re: mips address+symbol issue.
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: mips address+symbol issue.
  - From: cgd
- Re: mips address+symbol issue.
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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