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Re: [PATCH] tests: dissuade unwanted clang optimization


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: dissuade unwanted clang optimization
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:57:11 -0800
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 2024-11-22 07:50, Bruno Haible wrote:
The tests now give the impression that direct
use of memcpy etc. with NULL and 0 arguments is unreliable. Which — as we
know so far — isn't.

I suppose we test both with volatile function pointers, to test the actual Gnulib code, and without the pointers, to test possible compiler misoptimizations. Though that would generate more of the false-positive warnings that motivated the change....



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