Hi! On a testcase like below which would trigger UB at runtime we trigger UB in the compiler, by reading uninitialized bytes.
The VCE folding for which native_{encode,interpret}_expr has been originally written passes the length from the first one to the second one, so that the latter can return NULL_TREE (not fold) if not enough bytes in the buffer were filled. I believe this is the shortest fix for this issue and makes the code consistent with what is used in VCE folding. Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux and i686-linux, ok for trunk? 2015-12-09 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> PR tree-optimization/68785 * gimple-fold.c (fold_ctor_reference): Pass return value from native_encode_expr to native_interpret_expr. * tree-ssa-sccvn.c (fully_constant_vn_reference_p): Likewise. * gcc.dg/pr68785.c: New test. --- gcc/gimple-fold.c.jj 2015-11-24 11:43:35.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/gimple-fold.c 2015-12-09 10:48:06.824975709 +0100 @@ -5495,9 +5495,10 @@ fold_ctor_reference (tree type, tree cto && size <= MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE) { unsigned char buf[MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE / BITS_PER_UNIT]; - if (native_encode_expr (ctor, buf, size / BITS_PER_UNIT, - offset / BITS_PER_UNIT) > 0) - return native_interpret_expr (type, buf, size / BITS_PER_UNIT); + int len = native_encode_expr (ctor, buf, size / BITS_PER_UNIT, + offset / BITS_PER_UNIT); + if (len > 0) + return native_interpret_expr (type, buf, len); } if (TREE_CODE (ctor) == CONSTRUCTOR) { --- gcc/tree-ssa-sccvn.c.jj 2015-12-04 17:19:12.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/tree-ssa-sccvn.c 2015-12-09 10:50:30.329960789 +0100 @@ -1370,8 +1370,9 @@ fully_constant_vn_reference_p (vn_refere else { unsigned char buf[MAX_BITSIZE_MODE_ANY_MODE / BITS_PER_UNIT]; - if (native_encode_expr (ctor, buf, size, off) > 0) - return native_interpret_expr (ref->type, buf, size); + int len = native_encode_expr (ctor, buf, size, off); + if (len > 0) + return native_interpret_expr (ref->type, buf, len); } } } --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr68785.c.jj 2015-12-09 10:52:00.232698487 +0100 +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr68785.c 2015-12-09 10:50:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +/* PR tree-optimization/68785 */ +/* { dg-do compile } */ +/* { dg-options "-O3" } */ + +int +foo (void) +{ + return *(int *) ""; +} Jakub