wintrust/tests: Fix build with MSVC.

Thomas Faber thfabba at gmx.de
Fri Jun 22 03:35:25 CDT 2012


On 2012-06-21 23:47, David Laight wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:56:43PM +0200, Thomas Faber wrote:
>> On 2012-06-21 12:34, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
>>> Thomas Faber <thfabba at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> FIELD_OFFSET isn't constant "enough".
>>>
>>> The problem is not with FIELD_OFFSET, but with applying shift and mask
>>> operations to a constant.
>>
>> You're right, it's actually a combination of multiple factors. I'm not sure
>> what exactly its problem is - the gist is, FIELD_OFFSET cannot reliably be
>> assumed constant.
>>
>> E.g. the following code only complains about c4:
>>
>> struct a {
>>     char a;
>>     int b[5];
>>     int c;
>> };
>> int c1 = (int)&(((struct a *)0)->a) << 8;
>> int c2 = (int)&(((struct a *)0)->b[0]);
>> int c3 = (int)&(((struct a *)0)->b[0]) + 1;
>> int c4 = (int)&(((struct a *)0)->b[0]) << 8;
> 
> This is a bug in the microsoft C compiler.
> It won't let you do multiply or divide offsetof(struct, array_member[index])
> by anything and still get a compile-time constant.
> The C language requires offsetof() be a compile-time constant, so this
> ought to be allowed.
> I couldn't find anything that looked like 'offsetof' that would generate
> a real compile-time constant.
> 
> I can't remember whether it is 'constant enough' to let you do:
>     static char fubar[offsetof(struct a, b[3])];


Yeah, after some reading it seems clear that it's only with array[index] as
a member designator.
>From reading, it also seems that offsetof should indeed be constant enough
for all of these purposes - but I won't consider myself qualified to nitpick
on the contents of the standard in this regard.

In conclusion, assuming working around MSVC bugs like this is worth the
effort (which I do think it is),
FIELD_OFFSET(struct, array) + index * sizeof(type)
can be used as a compatible replacement.

Seems a workable alternative to me. I've submitted a new patch accordingly.

-Tom



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