checkedint call removal

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 30 16:14:19 PDT 2014


On 7/30/14, 3:41 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 July 2014 at 22:30:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/30/2014 3:20 PM, Artur Skawina via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>>    void f(ubyte[] a) @safe { assert(a.length>99); a[88] = a[77]; }
>>
>> The compiler will insert array bounds checking for you.
>
> Trying to understand what your position is: In release mode, but with
> bounds checking enabled, would the compiler
>    a) be allowed to replace this with a RangeError or, say, ud2 or
> another halt()-type instruction?
>    b) treat any call to f() as undefined behavior?

I think that's a good example. My understanding (I know it wasn't me who 
was asked...): the presence of assert should not influence the 
introduction of bounds checks.

Andrei



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