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clang incorrectly rejects references to earlier parameters in a prototype #2418

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efriedma-quic opened this issue Feb 16, 2008 · 5 comments
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Bugzilla Link 2046
Resolution FIXED
Resolved on Mar 12, 2010 00:56
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Testcase:
int aa(int b, int x[sizeof b]) {}

This is perfectly legal C90 and C99 code, but clang claims the b is undeclared.

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lattner commented Feb 16, 2008

Simpler testcase: void foo(int i, int A[i]) {}

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lattner commented Apr 5, 2008

*** Bug llvm/llvm-bugzilla-archive#2195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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lattner commented Apr 6, 2008

This is actually incredibly ugly. Currently clang doesn't make param decls for arguments when parsing an argument list: it only creates them when parsing a function body. Instead, it just evaluates the type of the argument. This appears to be sufficient except for cases like this.

This issue brings up "interesting" (aka PITA) lifetime issues as well. For example, in this case:

int (*v)(int b, int x[sizeof b]) {}

we now need to keep the decl for 'b' around, because it is referenced by the type of 'x'. This implies that we need to create and keep around decls for all arguments in prototypes unless we are extremely clever. This will punish normal cases like:

void exit(int status)

by making us keep a decl for status around.

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lattner commented Apr 8, 2008

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lattner commented Nov 26, 2021

mentioned in issue llvm/llvm-bugzilla-archive#2195

@llvmbot llvmbot transferred this issue from llvm/llvm-bugzilla-archive Dec 3, 2021
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