Re: autoconf bug

[Paul Eggert]

(CC'ing to bug-autoconf)

Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> writes:

> find_stack_direction() 
> { 
>         static char *addr = 0; 
>         auto char dummy; 
>         if (addr == 0) { 
>                 addr = &dummy; 
>                 return find_stack_direction (); 
>         } else { 
>                 return (&dummy > addr) ? 1 : -1; 
>         } 
> } 
> 
> found in acspecific.m4 is not working correctly because
> GCC optimizes this code in a way that &dummy may be == addr.

Thanks for the bug report.  If I understand you correctly, it's a GCC
bug, as that behavior doesn't conform to the C standard.  We should
file a bug report.  Which version of GCC was it, and on what platform?

> A better pice of code looks this way:

Hmm, but we can't simply modify acspecific.m4; we also need to modify
alloca.c, so that it is consistent with acspecific.m4.

But I'm puzzled as to why this matters, if you're using GCC.
GCC has builtin alloca, so shouldn't this issue be moot for GCC?