From: Linus Torvalds > Sent: 16 March 2018 17:29 > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:47 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you want to catch stack frames which have unbounded size, > > -Werror=stack-usage=1000 or -Werror=vla-larger-than=1000 (with the constant > > adjusted as needed) might be the better approach. > > No, we want to catch *variable* stack sizes. > > Does "-Werror=vla-larger-than=0" perhaps work for that? No, because > the stupid compiler says that is "meaningless". > > And no, using "-Werror=vla-larger-than=1" doesn't work either, because > the moronic compiler continues to think that "vla" is about the > _type_, not the code: > > t.c: In function ‘test’: > t.c:6:6: error: argument to variable-length array is too large > [-Werror=vla-larger-than=] > int array[(1,100)]; > > Gcc people are crazy. > > Is there really no way to just say "shut up about the stupid _syntax_ > issue that is entirely irrelevant, and give us the _code_ issue". I looked at the generated code for one of the constant sized VLA that the compiler barfed at. It seemed to subtract constants from %sp separately for the VLA. So it looks like the compiler treats them as VLA even though it knows the size. That is probably missing optimisation. David ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��)��^n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�