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Commit 1ca2d967 authored by Faisal Vali's avatar Faisal Vali
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Fix PR32933: crash on lambda capture of VLA

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32933

Turns out clang wasn't really handling vla's (*) in C++11's for-range entirely correctly. 

For e.g. This would lead to generation of buggy IR:

  void foo(int b) {
    int vla[b];
    b = -1;  // This store would affect the '__end = vla + b'
    for (int &c : vla) 
      c = 0;
  }

Additionally, code-gen would get confused when VLA's were reference-captured by lambdas, and then used in a for-range, which would result in an attempt to generate IR for '__end = vla + b' within the lambda's body - without any capture of 'b' - hence the assertion.

This patch modifies clang, so that for VLA's it translates the end pointer approximately into:
  __end = __begin + sizeof(vla)/sizeof(vla->getElementType())

As opposed to the __end = __begin + b;

I considered passing a magic value into codegen - or having codegen special case the '__end' variable when it referred to a variably-modified type, but I decided against that approach, because it smelled like I would be increasing a complicated form of coupling, that I think would be even harder to maintain than the above approach (which can easily be optimized (-O1) to refer to the run-time bound that was calculated upon array's creation or copied into the lambda's closure object).


(*) why oh why gcc would you enable this by default?! ;)

llvm-svn: 303026
parent 54392a20
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