[llvm-dev] Pointer to temporary issue in ArrayRefTest.InitializerList

[Keane, Erich via llvm-dev]

Hi all-
I am mostly doing work in Clang (and am new there), so I apologize if this isn't the proper place to mention this.  I appreciate guidance in advance.

I was looking into some of the unit tests, and noticed that the ArrayRefTest.InitializerList, and thus the InitializerList constructor of ArrayRef (under normal use-case) hit undefined behavior.  The test does the following:
  ArrayRef<int> A = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 };
  for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i)
    EXPECT_EQ(i, A[i]);

For those unfamiliar, ArrayRef is a T* Data/size_t Length pair-type with a std::initializer_list Ctor that simply copies the initializer_list::begin into Data.

The issue is that after the assignment, the initializer-list temporary goes out of scope (since it is a temporary), creating a dangling pointer.  This doesn't seem to be an issue for the most part, however compiling the test with -O2 and -fno-merge-all-constants causes this test to fail.

I suspect that this should be fixed in 1 of the following ways.  I'm willing to contribute the patch, but would like some guidance as to which the community thinks is the proper solution.

1- "Delete" r-value ctors for ArrayRef.  I did a quick test just deleting r-value std;:initializer list, and discovered quite a few usages of construct-from-temporary (before the build gave up!) that would need to be fixed as well.
2- Implement the r-value ctors to allocate.  This is likely going to require an additional member to capture the fact that this was allocated and thus needs to be free'd.  I suspect that this violates the purpose of the ArrayRef.
3- Others?  

Thanks,
Erich Keane