Hi Luc, On 28 February 2017 at 15:09, Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:20:43AM +0000, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: >> I am trying to debug a failure in sparse-llvm when compiling following: >> >> struct mytype { >> int *foo; >> }; >> extern void init_mytype(struct mytype *mt); >> void init_mytype(struct mytype *mt) { >> mt->foo = (void *)0; >> } >> > > I think that the best you can do for us to be able to help you is to create > test case showing concretely the issues you have. > Above is a simple test case. If you use an LLVM build with assertions enabled then the code generator aborts: Assertion failed: getOperand(0)->getType() == cast<PointerType>(getOperand(1)->getType())->getElementType() && "Ptr must be a pointer to Val type!", file C:\d\llvm-3.9.0.src\lib\IR\Instructions.cpp, line 1436 In the details I posted I was trying to say that : a) The Expression Value does not appear to pass down the fact that it has found a NULL pointer - i.e. (void *)0. b) And even if this is conveyed (by making changes I suggested) then it is lost at the time of converting to value pseudo. As far as I can tell the cast is not being optimized away, it is just lost in translation. I could be wrong in my analysis as I mentioned before. I will try to generate some debug info to further show what seems to be happening. Regards Dibyendu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html