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Fix Ada bootstrap failure

Message ID alpine.LNX.2.00.1109021507290.2130@zhemvz.fhfr.qr
State New
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Richard Biener Sept. 2, 2011, 1:08 p.m. UTC 
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Arnaud Charlet wrote:

> > > In Ada, it's quite natural to end up with a dynamically sized object of
> > > size 0. For instance, if you declare an array with a dynamic bound:
> > > 
> > >    Table : Unit_Table (1 .. Last_Unit);
> > > 
> > > and Last_Unit happens to be 0 at run-time
> > 
> > But are we expected to read/store from the storage?
> 
> No, that shouldn't happen, although you can e.g. reference Table'Address
> and expect it to be non null.

Ah, ok.  That we'd definitely broke.

> > I'd have
> > expected that alloca (0) returning NULL shouldn't break
> > anything at runtime ...
> 
> Not sure exactly what failed here, probably something relatively subtle
> (perhaps related to passing this variable or a "slice" of this variable
> to another procedure).

Hm, maybe we've expanded a block-move of size zero in some funny way.
The bootstrap fail can probably be reproduced with


Richard.
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Index: gcc/explow.c
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--- gcc/explow.c        (revision 178465)
+++ gcc/explow.c        (working copy)
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@  allocate_dynamic_stack_space (rtx size,
      to since we can't dereference it.  But return a reasonable
      address anyway.  */
   if (size == const0_rtx)
-    return virtual_stack_dynamic_rtx;
+    return const0_rtx;
 
   /* Otherwise, show we're calling alloca or equivalent.  */
   cfun->calls_alloca = 1;