[Issue 19968] @safe code can create invalid bools resulting in memory corruption

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Mon Jun 17 07:55:35 UTC 2019


https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19968

Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Walter Bright <bugzilla at digitalmars.com> ---
(In reply to Tim from comment #5)
> Maybe even types like ubyte can have the same problem on some architectures.
> If a parameter is stored in a register, which is bigger than the type, the
> compiler could assume the value is in the correct range. But an
> uninitialized variable could result in an uninitialized register.

When registers load a ubyte, and then the whole register is used, there must
have been a conversion from ubyte to the larger size first, so I don't think
this is an issue.

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