[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: Adding attribute(nonnull) to things in libc++

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:52:20AM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:57:17AM -0700, Reid Kleckner wrote:
> > > Why should memset / memcpy be attribute nonnull? Is there standardese
> > that
> > > supports that?
> >
> > The generic entry text of the standard section. IMO this is a standard
> > bug and someone should *please* get it fixed. It is ridiculous that zero
> > sized operations are considered UB.
> >
> 
> That would require a change to the C standard, and, as far as I know, there
> are no current plans to issue a revised C standard.

Well, a good start would be to get a position on whether this
interpretation is intentional. Especially given GCC's aggressive
exploitation. It doesn't make sense to me as there doesn't seem to be a
way that "if len is 0, the pointer must be not-null" can improve an
implementation on any system where memory operations can trap.

Joerg