aaron.ballman accepted this revision.
aaron.ballman added a comment.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

In D124694#3486547 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124694#3486547>, @void wrote:

> In D124694#3485585 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124694#3485585>, @aaron.ballman 
> wrote:
>
>>   struct t {
>>      int a, b, c, d, e;
>>   } x = { .a = 2, 4, 5, 6 };
>>
>> This situation seems like it should be an error, shouldn't it? The user 
>> specified one designated initializer (yay, that one is correct), but the 
>> rest are positional initializers and so there's no telling what they 
>> actually initialize due to field randomization.
>
> That is diagnosed as an error. The issue is that after randomization, the `a` 
> field is placed at the end of the structure. The initializer checker then 
> sees the `.a = 2` and says, "Ah! That's the one at the end of the structure. 
> Any non-designated initializers afterwards will be excess ones," which is 
> what happens. But that warning is completely mysterious to the end users who 
> isn't told that they can't have a non-designated initializer on a randomized 
> structure. Moving the diagnostic check allows the correct warning to be 
> emitted instead of the "excess elements" one.

Ohhhhh! Thank you for the extra explanation, that makes a lot more sense to me 
now. LGTM with a commenting request.



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Comment at: clang/test/Sema/init-randomized-struct.c:1
-// RUN: %clang_cc1 -triple=x86_64-unknown-linux 
-frandomize-layout-seed=1234567890abcdef \
+// RUN: %clang_cc1 -triple=x86_64-unknown-linux 
-frandomize-layout-seed=1234567890abcded \
 // RUN:  -verify -fsyntax-only -Werror %s
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void wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > Why is this change needed?
> > 
> > (Also, shouldn't there be other test coverage added to the file?)
> That seed is how to replicate this issue. The test exists and is triggered by 
> this change. I can add a comment to that effect.
Yeah, adding such a comment would be helpful, both for code archeology and as a 
hint to others editing the file in the future that this seed value is special 
and should not be changed.


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