[LLVMdev] interesting possible compiler bug

[Krzysztof Parzyszek]

On 10/15/2012 7:20 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
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> You've made a number of claims on this thread, but I'm not sure what you're basing these claims on - certainly not the C standard.
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> If you don't want the compiler to touch well known functions like malloc, build with -fno-builtin and you'll get the behavior you want.

The only claim you can object to is about side-effects.  It was more of 
a general remark, but yes, the compiler can delete calls where the 
result is not used.  This is indeed a case of a "dead malloc", which Eli 
pointed out.

Is there anything else you disagree with?

-K

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