Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> This patch fixes the immediate crash, but is this the right thing to
> do? Or should I always put something inside the vector, even if there
> is nothing meaningful to put in there?
I found other cases where an empty vector produces a NULL pointer and
leads to a later crash. So I don't think it is safe to have an empty
vector in RTL for the 'E' format.
I propose this patch. OK if it passes testsuite and bootstrap? Or
should this wait for 4.1?
Ian
2005-02-10 Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* read-rtl.c (read_rtx_1): Give fatal error if we see a vector
with no elements.
Index: read-rtl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/read-rtl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.32
diff -p -u -r1.32 read-rtl.c
--- read-rtl.c 29 Sep 2004 11:23:11 -0000 1.32
+++ read-rtl.c 11 Feb 2005 03:15:23 -0000
@@ -1253,6 +1253,9 @@ read_rtx_1 (FILE *infile)
memcpy (&return_vec->elem[0], obstack_finish (&vector_stack),
list_counter * sizeof (rtx));
}
+ else if (format_ptr[i] == 'E')
+ fatal_with_file_and_line (infile,
+ "vector must have at least one element");
XVEC (return_rtx, i) = return_vec;
obstack_free (&vector_stack, NULL);
/* close bracket gotten */
