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[clang][CodeGen] Check initializer of zero-size fields for nullptr
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion clang/lib/CodeGen/CGExprConstant.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -738,7 +738,7 @@ bool ConstStructBuilder::Build(const InitListExpr *ILE, bool AllowOverwrite) {
// Zero-sized fields are not emitted, but their initializers may still
// prevent emission of this struct as a constant.
if (isEmptyFieldForLayout(CGM.getContext(), Field)) {
if (Init->HasSideEffects(CGM.getContext()))
if (Init && Init->HasSideEffects(CGM.getContext()))
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Maybe we should look at making InitListExpr handling more consistent, though... it looks like we generate an implicit initializer expression for C++ classes, but not other cases. But this should do the right thing.

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Yea agreed, wasn't sure if that was an intentional choice or not. I'll take a closer look re. InitListExpr

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This is where C and C++ diverge (in InitListChecker::PerformEmptyInit):

  // C++ [dcl.init.aggr]p7:
  //   If there are fewer initializer-clauses in the list than there are
  //   members in the aggregate, then each member not explicitly initialized
  //   ...
  bool EmptyInitList = SemaRef.getLangOpts().CPlusPlus11 &&
      Entity.getType()->getBaseElementTypeUnsafe()->isRecordType();
  if (EmptyInitList) {
    // C++1y / DR1070:
    //   shall be initialized [...] from an empty initializer list.
    //
    // We apply the resolution of this DR to C++11 but not C++98, since C++98
    // does not have useful semantics for initialization from an init list.
    // We treat this as copy-initialization, because aggregate initialization
    // always performs copy-initialization on its elements.
    //
    // Only do this if we're initializing a class type, to avoid filling in
    // the initializer list where possible.
    InitExpr = VerifyOnly
                   ? &DummyInitList
                   : new (SemaRef.Context)
                         InitListExpr(SemaRef.Context, Loc, std::nullopt, Loc);
    InitExpr->setType(SemaRef.Context.VoidTy);
    SubInit = InitExpr;
    Kind = InitializationKind::CreateCopy(Loc, Loc);
  } else {
    // C++03:
    //   shall be value-initialized.
  }

Technically this was only allowed as a GNU extension in C until C23 AFAIU (and in C++ since C++11).

Should we allow this for SemaRef.getLangOpts().C23 too perhaps?

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Should we allow this for SemaRef.getLangOpts().C23 too perhaps?

Empty initialization ends up in C's "default initialization" rules, which does:

If an object that has automatic storage duration is not initialized explicitly, its representation is indeterminate. If an object that has static or thread storage duration is not initialized explicitly, or any object is initialized with an empty initializer, then it is subject to default initialization, which initializes an object as follows:
— if it has pointer type, it is initialized to a null pointer;
— if it has decimal floating type, it is initialized to positive zero, and the quantum exponent is
implementation-defined;
— if it has arithmetic type, and it does not have decimal floating type, it is initialized to (positive
or unsigned) zero;
— if it is an aggregate, every member is initialized (recursively) according to these rules, and any padding is initialized to zero bits;
— if it is a union, the first named member is initialized (recursively) according to these rules, and any padding is initialized to zero bits.

So yeah, I think we should do this in C23 mode.

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Thanks for confirming. I'll put up a PR for that separately. Though we'll still have to go ahead with this null check, for the non-C23 case (unless we want to extend this logic for the GNU extension too?)

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We should check GCC's behavior and follow their lead since it's a GNU extension, but my hope is that we can extend the logic for the GNU extension as well (I think it's more intuitive).

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Looking at the comments ("Only do this if we're initializing a class type, to avoid filling in the initializer list where possible"), I guess the member init is being intentionally omitted to try to reduce the size of the AST... but for C++11 classes, we need to do overload resolution etc., so we can't skip it.

return false;
continue;
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions clang/test/CodeGen/union-init2.c
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// RUN: %clang_cc1 -emit-llvm %s -o - -triple i686-pc-linux-gnu | FileCheck %s
// RUN: %clang_cc1 -x c++ %s -emit-llvm -triple x86_64-linux-gnu -o - | FileCheck %s --check-prefixes=CHECK-CXX

// Make sure we generate something sane instead of a ptrtoint
// CHECK: @r, [4 x i8] undef
Expand All @@ -11,3 +12,10 @@ union z {
long long b;
};
union z y = {};

// CHECK: @foo = {{.*}}global %union.Foo undef, align 1
// CHECK-CXX: @foo = {{.*}}global %union.Foo undef, align 1
union Foo {
struct Empty {} val;
};
union Foo foo = {};
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