On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Brooks Moses <bmo...@google.com> wrote:
> Ping?

This is fine, but please add a comment explaining why the code avoids
0-length VLAs.  Thanks.

Ian

> (I suspect I should have added a libiberty maintainer to cc in the first 
> place.)
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Brooks Moses <bmo...@google.com> wrote:
>> Zero-length variable-length-arrays are not allowed in standard C99,
>> and perhaps more importantly, they cause ASAN to complain.  (See,
>> e.g., https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-09/msg00917.html.)
>>
>> With this patch, the libiberty tests, including demangler-fuzzer, are
>> ASAN-clean.
>>
>> - Brooks
>>
>>
>> ----
>> ==== libiberty/ChangeLog ====
>> --- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
>> +++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
>> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
>> +2016-06-12  Brooks Moses  <bmo...@google.com>
>> +
>> +       * cp-demangle.c (cplus_demangle_print_callback): Avoid zero-length
>> +       VLAs.
>> +
>>  2016-05-31  Alan Modra  <amo...@gmail.com>
>>
>>         * xmemdup.c (xmemdup): Use xmalloc rather than xcalloc.
>> ==== libiberty/cp-demangle.c ====
>> --- a/libiberty/cp-demangle.c
>> +++ b/libiberty/cp-demangle.c
>> @@ -4120,8 +4120,10 @@
>>
>>    {
>>  #ifdef CP_DYNAMIC_ARRAYS
>> -    __extension__ struct d_saved_scope scopes[dpi.num_saved_scopes];
>> -    __extension__ struct d_print_template temps[dpi.num_copy_templates];
>> +    __extension__ struct d_saved_scope scopes[(dpi.num_saved_scopes > 0)
>> +                                             ? dpi.num_saved_scopes : 1];
>> +    __extension__ struct d_print_template temps[(dpi.num_copy_templates > 0)
>> +                                               ? dpi.num_copy_templates : 
>> 1];
>>
>>      dpi.saved_scopes = scopes;
>>      dpi.copy_templates = temps;

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