https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103600
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hubicka at gcc dot gnu.org, | |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org, | |jason at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #4 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- We handle e.g. constexpr auto x = &typeid(int) == &typeid(int); or int a, b; constexpr auto y = &a == &b; The former by the (cmp @0 @0) folding in match.pd, the latter by the address_compare match.pd patterns. But, we already punt on e.g. template <int N> inline int a = N; constexpr auto c = &a<0> == &a<1>; because address_compare -> equal_address_to punts on those, decl_binds_to_current_def_p is false (they are comdat and can end up being defined from some other TU etc.). And similarly it punts in the &typeid(int) == &typeid(long) case, neither _ZTIi nor _ZTIl are defined in the current TU (both are defined in libstdc++) and the code attempts to play safe, say if the actual definitions would be aliases of each other etc. I guess at least for constexpr evaluation we want to have some C++ rules, both for typeid vars - dunno if we can rely on the get_tinfo_decl_direct created vars to be always different if they aren't the same VAR_DECL, or if we need to e.g. compute the name and compare those, or for stuff like inline vars or variable templates. And the question is if cxx_eval_binary_expression should for EQ_EXPR/NE_EXPR repeat what the match.pd address_compare simplification does with its own address_compare, or if it should temporarily set some langhook and let address_compare use that langhook to handle the special cases, or if a langhook should handle some of those cases always for C++. Another case is the typeid(int) == typeid(long) comparison, operator== is I think bool operator==(const type_info& __arg) const _GLIBCXX_NOEXCEPT { return ((__name == __arg.__name) || (__name[0] != '*' && __builtin_strcmp (__name, __arg.__name) == 0)); } so we'd need to be able to constant fold during constexpr evaluation typeid(int).__name to &_ZTSi when the typeinfo isn't defined locally and handle &_ZTSwhatever similarly to &_ZTIwhatever, but further we even need to constant fold reading from those strings even when they aren't local..