On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Ted Kremenek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2014, at 7:58 PM, Hal Finkel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: "Richard Smith" <[email protected]>
> To: "Ted Kremenek" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "cfe commits" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:40:18 PM
> Subject: Re: r201162 - 'nonnull(1)' on a block parameter should apply to the
> block's argument.
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> Heh, I see what you did there :-) Here are some options:
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> nonnull_param, required, notnull, dereferenceable
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> I'd like to have a dereferenceable attribute, but I don't think we have
> backend support for that right now (then again, maybe we don't have backend
> support for notnull either). AFAIK, notnull allows constant folding of
> comparisons against the null pointer, whereas dereferenceable would allow
> that plus speculative loading.
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> ... getting back to this.
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> How is "dereferenceable" different than "nonnull_param"?  I'd prefer the
> latter since it aligns with the other user attributes for this concept that
> we already have.

Pointers one-past-the-end of an array are non-null, but not dereferenceable.

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> I'd prefer nonnull_param.
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