Re: [Tinycc-devel] Segmentation fault compiling jslong.c

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 20 September 2007 7:32:09 am Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The constant propagation thing is relatively straightforward, the "int
> > thingy=printf();" thing I'm not 100% sure about, is that allowed in c99? 
> > I know c++ has constructors that run before main() does, can you do
> > something equivalent in C?
> >
> > I note that gcc complains "initializer is not constant" for the attempt
> > to initialize a global with "int thingy=printf("");", so I'm guessing
> > it's _not_ allowed.  But I'd appreciate somebody more familiar with the
> > expected behavior here to pipe up, if they can...
>
> According to Harbison and Steele, initialization of a static or extern
> int requires a constant expression.

Ok.

> Automatic and register vars can   be initialized with any expression.

Both of which can only be local variables.

> Vars with no explicit storage 
> class default to extern, which implies static.  (5th ed., 4.6.1)

extern implies static?

Hang on, so if I say "extern int thingy;" in a header, and declare a 
global "int thingy;" in a .c file, I can't use that "thingy" in another .c 
file that #includes that header?

I'm fairly certain that's not the case.  I think you have to say "static" if 
you want something to be, you know, static.

However, I thought static and extern were diametrically opposed.  We may be 
talking about something different here...

> The 
> c99 draft says "All the expressions in an initializer for an object
> that has static storage duration shall be constant expressions or
> string literals".  (6.7.8, constraint 4).

So static storage duration != static keyword applied to a global, limiting its 
scope to the current file?

Who named these?

Right, ok, can only initialize globals with constants.  Check.  I need to add 
a new error() case and a return somewhere, and _then_ fix the darn constant 
propogation for 64-bit shifts...

> -gregg

Rob
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