[PATCH] D132952: [Sema] disable -Wvla for function array parameters

[Aaron Ballman via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

aaron.ballman added inline comments.


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Comment at: clang/test/Sema/warn-vla.c:8-12
+void test2(int n, int v[n]) { // c99 no-warning
+#if __STDC_VERSION__ < 199901L
+// expected-warning at -2{{variable length arrays are a C99 feature}}
+#endif
 }
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inclyc wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > The diagnostic there is rather unfortunate because we're not using a variable-length array in this case.
> Emm, I'm not clear about whether we should consider this a VLA, and generates `-Wvla-extensions`. Is `v[n]` literally a variable-length array? (in source code) So it seems to me that we should still report c89 incompatibility warnings?
> 
C89's grammar only allowed for an integer constant expression to (optionally) appear as the array extent in an array declarator, so there is a compatibility warning needed for that. But I don't think we should issue a warning about this being a VLA in C99 or later. The array *is* a VLA in terms of the form written in the source, but C adjusts the parameter to be a pointer parameter, so as far as the function's type is concerned, it's not a VLA (it's just a self-documenting interface).

Because self-documenting code is nice and because people are worried about accidental use of VLAs that cause stack allocations (which this does not), I think we don't want to scare people off from this construct. But I'm curious what others think as well.


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