mirror of
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
synced 2024-11-23 15:23:46 +00:00
5d328a1f62
offset: allow zero-byte offset on arbitrary pointers As per prior `@rust-lang/opsem` [discussion](https://github.com/rust-lang/opsem-team/issues/10) and [FCP](https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/472#issuecomment-1793409130): - Zero-sized reads and writes are allowed on all sufficiently aligned pointers, including the null pointer - Inbounds-offset-by-zero is allowed on all pointers, including the null pointer - `offset_from` on two pointers derived from the same allocation is always allowed when they have the same address This removes surprising UB (in particular, even C++ allows "nullptr + 0", which we currently disallow), and it brings us one step closer to an important theoretical property for our semantics ("provenance monotonicity": if operations are valid on bytes without provenance, then adding provenance can't make them invalid). The minimum LLVM we require (v17) includes https://reviews.llvm.org/D154051, so we can finally implement this. The `offset_from` change is needed to maintain the equivalence with `offset`: if `let ptr2 = ptr1.offset(N)` is well-defined, then `ptr2.offset_from(ptr1)` should be well-defined and return N. Now consider the case where N is 0 and `ptr1` dangles: we want to still allow offset_from here. I think we should change offset_from further, but that's a separate discussion. Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65108 [Tracking issue](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/117945) | [T-lang summary](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117329#issuecomment-1951981106) Cc `@nikic` |
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| assembly | ||
| auxiliary | ||
| codegen | ||
| codegen-units | ||
| coverage | ||
| coverage-run-rustdoc | ||
| crashes | ||
| debuginfo | ||
| incremental | ||
| mir-opt | ||
| pretty | ||
| run-make | ||
| run-make-fulldeps | ||
| run-pass-valgrind | ||
| rustdoc | ||
| rustdoc-gui | ||
| rustdoc-js | ||
| rustdoc-js-std | ||
| rustdoc-json | ||
| rustdoc-ui | ||
| ui | ||
| ui-fulldeps | ||
| COMPILER_TESTS.md | ||