When `-ftrivial-auto-var-init=` is enabled, allocas unconditionally
receive auto-initialization since [1].
In certain cases, it turns out, this is causing problems. For example,
when using alloca to add a random stack offset, as the Linux kernel does
on syscall entry [2]. In this case, none of the alloca'd stack memory is
ever used, and initializing it should be controllable; furthermore, it
is not always possible to safely call memset (see [2]).
Introduce `__builtin_alloca_uninitialized()` (and
`__builtin_alloca_with_align_uninitialized`), which never performs
initialization when `-ftrivial-auto-var-init=` is enabled.
[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D60548
[2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbHTKUjEejZCLyhX@elver.google.com
Reviewed By: glider
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115440
This CL adds an optional warning to diagnose uses of the
`__builtin_alloca` family of functions. The use of these functions is
discouraged by many, so it seems like a good idea to allow clang to warn
about it.
Patch by Elaina Guan!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64883
llvm-svn: 367067
Marco Elver