[LLVMdev] Is this a bug in clang?

[David Vandevoorde]

On Apr 20, 2011, at 2:37 PM, John Regehr wrote:

>> It's the evaluation of the expression "i++ + i++" that result in undefined
>> behavior. If you merely compile a program that contains the expression, the
>> expression is never evaluated. You need to execute the program to have the
>> expression be evaluated and behavior be undefined.
> 
> I don't think this is correct.  The standard does not make much of a 
> distinction between compile time and run time, there is merely a "C 
> implementation."
> 
>> For example, also, if you do `sizeof(i++ + i++)`, this behavior is perfectly
>> fine, and not undefined behavior. Because the `i++` is not evaluated.
> 
> Probably also wrong.

No, Johannes is right: "undefined behavior" requires evaluation.  Whether than evaluation happens at "compile/translation time" or "run time" doesn't matter (as you note: the standard's distinction between the two is implicit at best), but if the offending expression is e.g. in a function that never gets called, that expression doesn't cause undefined behavior.

	Daveed