A
Ark
A function
int foo(struct T *x)
{
return (x+1)-x;
}
should always return a 1, no matter how T is defined. (And int could be
replaced with ptrdiff_t for you pedants.)
For one thing, it was amusing to watch how my compiler (the famed IAR
EWARM for ARM) jumps through hoops to arrive at this answer.
[ For sizeof(struct T)==6,
00000000 061080E2 ADD R1,R0,#+6
00000004 18209FE5 LDR R2,??foo_0 ;; 0xaaaaaaab
00000008 92318CE0 UMULL R3,R12,R2,R1
0000000C 2CC1A0E1 LSR R12,R12,#+2
00000010 0210A0E1 MOV R1,R2
00000014 912083E0 UMULL R2,R3,R1,R0
00000018 2331A0E1 LSR R3,R3,#+2
0000001C 03004CE0 SUB R0,R12,R3
00000020 0EF0A0E1 MOV PC,LR ;; return
??foo_0:
00000024 ABAAAAAA DC32 0xaaaaaaab
]
How does your compiler fare?
[MSVC gets it right:
mov eax, 1
ret 0
]
Another thing is that, logically, since the actual type doesn't matter,
it could be an incomplete type. However, if I just say
struct T;
before the foo's body, compilation fails. Is it good and/or justified?
- Ark
int foo(struct T *x)
{
return (x+1)-x;
}
should always return a 1, no matter how T is defined. (And int could be
replaced with ptrdiff_t for you pedants.)
For one thing, it was amusing to watch how my compiler (the famed IAR
EWARM for ARM) jumps through hoops to arrive at this answer.
[ For sizeof(struct T)==6,
00000000 061080E2 ADD R1,R0,#+6
00000004 18209FE5 LDR R2,??foo_0 ;; 0xaaaaaaab
00000008 92318CE0 UMULL R3,R12,R2,R1
0000000C 2CC1A0E1 LSR R12,R12,#+2
00000010 0210A0E1 MOV R1,R2
00000014 912083E0 UMULL R2,R3,R1,R0
00000018 2331A0E1 LSR R3,R3,#+2
0000001C 03004CE0 SUB R0,R12,R3
00000020 0EF0A0E1 MOV PC,LR ;; return
??foo_0:
00000024 ABAAAAAA DC32 0xaaaaaaab
]
How does your compiler fare?
[MSVC gets it right:
mov eax, 1
ret 0
]
Another thing is that, logically, since the actual type doesn't matter,
it could be an incomplete type. However, if I just say
struct T;
before the foo's body, compilation fails. Is it good and/or justified?
- Ark