[cfe-dev] Recursion in Clang FE

[Sotkin, Alexey]

Hello

I build Clang FE as a shared library and link with other application. That application should never crash with any sources given for compilation.
I have a test based on this one https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/limits-pointer.c . But PTR4 is changed to PTR5 at the last line. I run the test with the following command line:

clang.exe -c C:\work\tmp\limits-pointer.c

Then clang crashed with stack overflow exception caused by very deep recursion during preprocessing. And that is not the only one case.
I have noticed that there are many recursive calls in Clang's source code. And depth of recursion in many cases depends on the source code which is being compiled.

Is it possible to eliminate all such recursions in Clang?
If not, how can I workaround (if it is possible) stack overflow ?


Best regards.
Alexey Sotkin.


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