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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - Clang should warn when using pointer to dead scoped variable within the same function"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20952">20952</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Clang should warn when using pointer to dead scoped variable within the same function
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>-New Bugs
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>jacob.benoit.1@gmail.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=13044" name="attach_13044" title="testcase">attachment 13044</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=13044&action=edit" title="testcase">[details]</a></span>
testcase

Consider this testcase:

int foo(int i)
{
  int *p = 0;

  if (i)
  {
    int k = i;
    p = &k;
  } /* end of nested scope, k dies, p becomes a dangling pointer */

  return p ? *p : 0; /* the compiler should warn that p points to dead k */
}

Neither Clang 3.4 nor GCC 4.8 currently generate a warning. Yet, since all is
local to this function, it seems like something that a compiler could easily
warn against, and that would have saved me some time today!</pre>
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