This patch resolves PR middle-end/122348, an ICE caused by passing a
initialized structure containing a flexible array member by value.
The semantics in C99 (and since gcc 4.4) are that the zero sized array
at the end of the structure is ignored when passing by value. Hence
for the structure in the PR:
struct S {
int a;
int b[];
} s = { 0, { 42 } };
when passed by value, sizeof(s) is considered to be 4 bytes, and on
x86_64 passed in the 32-bit %edi register. Unfortunately, the code
in store_constructor isn't expecting initialized fields where the
type's DECL_SIZE is NULL, which leads to the ICE. Fixed by explicitly
ignoring fields where DECL_SIZE is NULL_TREE. On x86_64, passing "s"
now compiles to just:
f: xorl %edi, %edi
jmp foo
2026-01-25 Roger Sayle <roger@nextmovesoftware.com>
gcc/ChangeLog
PR middle-end/122348
* expr.cc (store_constructor): Ignore fields where DECL_SIZE
is NULL_TREE, i.e. flexible array members.
gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
PR middle-end/122348
* g++.dg/pr122348.C: New C++ testcase.
* gcc.dg/pr122348.c: New C testcase.
if (cleared && initializer_zerop (value))
continue;
- if (tree_fits_uhwi_p (DECL_SIZE (field)))
- bitsize = tree_to_uhwi (DECL_SIZE (field));
+ /* Variable sized arrays are ignored. */
+ tree decl_size = DECL_SIZE (field);
+ if (!decl_size)
+ continue;
+
+ if (tree_fits_uhwi_p (decl_size))
+ bitsize = tree_to_uhwi (decl_size);
else
gcc_unreachable ();
--- /dev/null
+/* middle-end/122348 */
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2" } */
+
+struct S {
+ int a;
+ int b[];
+};
+const struct S s = { 0, { 42 } };
+void foo(struct S arg);
+void f(void) {
+ foo(s);
+}
--- /dev/null
+/* middle-end/122348 */
+/* { dg-do compile } */
+/* { dg-options "-O2" } */
+
+struct S {
+ int a;
+ int b[];
+};
+const struct S s = { 0, { 42 } };
+void foo(struct S arg);
+void f(void) {
+ foo(s);
+}