Re: [Tinycc-devel] Bug Report (offset+cast)

[kf]

On 5/11/07, Gil Dabah <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I just tried to compile diStorm (http://ragestorm.net/distorm/) with TCC.
> Everything works well, except one bug I found.
>
> It seems you can't cast a pointer from a specified offset:
>
> char* s = "\x34\x34\x12";
> short word = *(short*)&s[1]; // <--buggy
> printf("%x", word);
>
> will print 34 instead of 1234 (on LE machine, of course).
> I also took a look at the generated code and it seems it simply ignores
> the cast to short and reads a byte.
> The bug can be triggered when specifying offset to access the buffer,
> without the [XXX] it won't generate erroneously code.
>
> Can anyone confirm?

Happens here too. However,

short word = *(short*)(s+1);

works as expected.

> Thanks,
> Gil
>
>
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