On Sat, 2023-07-15 at 18:43 +0800, James R T via Gcc-help wrote:
> Is the conditional assignment to `arr` considered undefined
> behavior?
It's not the assignment that's the problem. The problem is that you're
using a compound literal, and a compound literal, like typical
automatically allocated variables, has a lifetime determined by its
scope.
In other words, the following:
if (some_var == 7) {
arr = (unsigned int[7]){9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15};
}
is the same as
if (some_var == 7) {
unsigned int baz[7] = {9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15};
arr = baz;
}
I hope this makes the problem a little more obvious: after you leave the
'}', the array doesn't exist anymore, and arr is a dangling pointer to
an object that doesn't exist.
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