Here's a potential approach to fixing PR92539, a P2 -Warray-bounds false
positive triggered by loop unrolling.
As I speculated a couple years ago, we could eliminate the comparisons
against bogus pointers. Consider:
<bb 8> [local count: 30530247]:
if (last_12 != &MEM <const char> [(void *)"aa" + 3B])
goto <bb 9>; [54.59%]
else
goto <bb 12>; [45.41%]
That's a valid comparison as ISO allows us to generate, but not
dereference, a pointer one element past the end of the object.
But +4B is a bogus pointer. So given an EQ comparison against that
pointer we could always return false and for NE always return true.
VRP and DOM seem to be the most natural choices for this kind of
optimization on the surface. However DOM is actually not viable because
the out-of-bounds pointer warning pass is run at the end of VRP. So
we've got to take care of this prior to the end of VRP.
I haven't done a bootstrap or regression test with this. But if it
looks reasonable I can certainly push on it further. I have confirmed it
does eliminate the tests and shuts up the bogus warning.
The downside is this would also shut up valid warnings if user code did
this kind of test.
Comments/Suggestions?
Jeff
