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Re: type-punning?

by vippstar@[EMAIL PROTECTED] May 6, 2008 at 09:43 AM

On May 6, 6:46 pm, j.j.fish...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a program which, with inessential details removed,
> looks like this:
>
> --
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> static int punme(void** dat,size_t newsize)
> {
>   void *newdat = realloc(*dat,newsize);
>
>   if (! newdat) return 1;
>
>   *dat = newdat;
>
>   return 0;
>
> }
>
> int main (void)
> {
>   char *dat = malloc(30);
>
>   int ret = punme((void**)&dat,40);
>
>   printf("punme returns %i\n",ret);
>
>   return 0;}
>
> --
>
> My compiler (gcc -Wall -O3) tells me that "typepun.c:19:
> warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
> strict-aliasing rules".  The code works as expected, ie,
> prints that punme returns 0.
>
> Who is the idiot? Me or the compiler?
You (cast) and assign a char ** to a void **. void ** is not like void
*.
Fixed your code:
> static int punme(void* dat,size_t newsize) {
> void **tmp = dat;
> void *newdat = realloc(*tmp, newsize);

You also don't free the allocated memory.
 




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type-punning?
j.j.fishbat@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-06 08:46:00 
Re: type-punning?
vippstar@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-05-06 09:43:53 
Re: type-punning?
Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSz  2008-05-06 19:35:00 
Re: type-punning?
Andrey Tarasevich <and  2008-05-06 11:05:25 
Re: type-punning?
lawrence.jones@[EMAIL PRO  2008-05-06 14:39:47 
Re: type-punning?
j.j.fishbat@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-06 11:17:38 
Re: type-punning?
Andrey Tarasevich <and  2008-05-06 11:24:55 
Re: type-punning?
Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSz  2008-05-06 20:32:01 
Re: type-punning?
Kenneth Brody <kenbrod  2008-05-06 14:34:57 
Re: type-punning?
Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSz  2008-05-06 20:50:08 
Re: type-punning?
j.j.fishbat@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-06 11:56:36 
Re: type-punning?
Kenneth Brody <kenbrod  2008-05-06 16:26:19 
Re: type-punning?
Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@  2008-05-06 14:02:24 
Re: type-punning?
Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSz  2008-05-06 23:11:51 
Re: type-punning?
"Default User"   2008-05-06 22:49:07 
Re: type-punning?
Ben Bacarisse <ben.use  2008-05-06 22:17:42 

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