Re: [Tinycc-devel] const_wanted

[grischka]

Thomas Preud'homme wrote:
> > Can you show an example where this happens, that is that
> >     const_wanted is false
> > and
> >     cur_text_section is NULL
> > at the same time in cond_expr()?
> Sure. It's a side effect of the VLA array patches. On Hurd, there is a header 
> with something like:
>
> #define FOO_COUNT (cond ? 2 : 42)
>
> type foo_array[FOO_SIZE];
>
> This lead post_type to call gexpr() which will eventually call cond_expr() 
> without const_wanted. This in turn will try to generate some code but will 
> segfault due to cur_text_section being NULL (this is how I spotted it, it 
> caused a segfault in the testsuite on Hurd)

I still cannot reproduce this.  Can you show a self contained
example to exhibit the bug?

--- grischka

> I can give you the exact content of the header on Hurd if you need.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Preud'homme