Re: load/store address overflow on binutils 2.14

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Chip Coldwell wrote:
[snip]
> >         printf("%016x\n", ~a);
> > 
> >         return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > outputs
> > 
> > 00000000ffffffff
> > 
> > on my i386-linux system.
> 
> Strangely, this is actually "correct" behavior.  Arguments on
> variable-length argument lists are implicitly "promoted" to unsigned
> int at the widest.  See K&R 2nd ed. A6.1 and A7.3.2.

Ugh. Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of it.

        printf("%016Lx\n", ~a);

Produces the expected output. So it is actually an implementation
bug in binutils, which isn't fixable for 2.14 and earlier, because
those have to remain at K&R C level. The K&R requirement was only
recenly loosened.


Thiemo