On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> ~ $ gcc -O3 -S -xc -o 2.s -
> extern void foo (char *buf, int len);
> extern void bar (char *buf);
> 
> void foo (char *buf, int len)
> {
>   if (buf+len < buf)
>   {
>     bar (buf);
>   }
>   return;
> }

Note that if buf is a char *, there's no way to know that it's the
start of an object.  So you're not testing the same thing they were
talking about; calling foo (&str[2], -1) is completely valid C.


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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