Jones D.M.The new C standard (C90 and C++).An economic and cultural commentary.2005
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equality operators pointer to incomplete type
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The discussion on the relational operators is applicable here.
— one operand is a pointer to an object or incomplete type and the other is a pointer to a qualified or 1206 unqualified version of void; or
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This special case is not called out in the C++ Standard.
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12struct node *p = malloc(sizeof(struct node));
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15* There are no C/C++ differences when the object being assigned
16* has a pointer to void type, 4.10p2.
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18glob = p;
19}
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C90
This requirement was not explicitly specified in the C90 Standard. It was created, in part, by the response to DR #172.
C++
This requirement is not explicitly specified in the C ++ Standard.
1212 If both of the operands have arithmetic type, the usual arithmetic conversions are performed.
C90
Where the operands have types and values suitable for the relational operators, the semantics detailed in 6.3.8 apply.
1213 Values of complex types are equal if and only if both their real parts are equal and also their imaginary parts are equal.
C90
Support for complex types is new in C99.
1214 Any two values of arithmetic types from different type domains are equal if and only if the results of their conversions to the (complex) result type determined by the usual arithmetic conversions are equal.
C90
Support for different type domains, and complex types, is new in C99.
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The concept of type domain is new in C99 and is not specified in the C ++ Standard, which defines construc-
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1220 If one operand is a pointer and the other is a null pointer constant, the null pointer constant is converted to equality operators
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If a null pointer constant is assigned to or compared for equality to a pointer, the constant is converted to a pointer of that type.
In the case of the expression (void *)0 == 0 both operands are null pointer constants. The C90 wording 744 null pointer
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permits the left operand to be converted to the type of the right operand (type int). The C99 wording does not support this interpretation.
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equality operators null pointer constant
equality operators pointer to void
C++
The C++ Standard supports this combination of operands but does not explicitly specify any sequence of operations that take place prior to the comparison.
If one operand is a pointer to an object or incomplete type and the other is a pointer to a qualified or unquali- 1221 fied version of void, the former is converted to the type of the latter.
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pointers compare equal
This conversion is part of the general pointer conversion (4.10) rules in C++. This conversion occurs when two operands have pointer type.
Two pointers compare equal if and only if both are null pointers, both are pointers to the same object (including 1223 a pointer to an object and a subobject at its beginning) or function, both are pointers to one past the last element of the same array object, or one is a pointer to one past the end of one array object and the other is
a pointer to the start of a different array object that happens to immediately follow the first array object in the address space.92)
C90
If two pointers to object or incomplete types are both null pointers, they compare equal. If two pointers to object or incomplete types compare equal, they both are null pointers, or both point to the same object, or both point one past the last element of the same array object. If two pointers to function types are both null pointers or both point to the same function, they compare equal. If two pointers to function types compare equal, either both are null pointers, or both point to the same function.
The admission that a pointer one past the end of an object and a pointer to the start of a different object compare equal, if the implementation places the latter immediately following the former in the address space, is new in C99 (but it does describe the behavior of most C90 implementations).
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Two pointers of the same type compare equal if and only if they are both null, both point to the same object or function, or both point one past the end of the same array.
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6.5.10Bitwise AND operator
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1228 92) Two objects may be adjacent in memory because they are adjacent elements of a larger array or adjacent members of a structure with no padding between them, or because the implementation chose to place them so, even though they are unrelated.
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The C90 Standard did not discuss these object layout possibilities.
C++
The C++ Standard does not make these observations.
1229 If prior invalid pointer operations (such as accesses outside array bounds) produced undefined behavior, subsequent comparisons also produce undefined behavior.
footnote 92
C90
The C90 Standard did not discuss this particular case of undefined behavior.
6.5.11 Bitwise exclusive OR operator
Constraints
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6.5.12 Bitwise inclusive OR operator
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6.5.13 Logical AND operator
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The operands are both implicitly converted to type bool (clause 4).
Boolean conversions (4.12) covers conversions for all of the scalar types and is equivalent to the C behavior.
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The operands are both implicitly converted to bool (clause 4).
Boolean conversions (4.12) covers conversions for all of the scalar types and is equivalent to the C behavior.
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1248 The || operator shall yield 1 if either of its operands compare unequal to 0;
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It returns true if either of its operands is true, and false otherwise.
The difference in operand types is not applicable because C++ defines equality to return true or false. The difference in return value will not cause different behavior because false and true will be converted to 0 and 1 when required.
1250 The result has type int.
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The result is a bool.
The difference in result type will result in a difference of behavior if the result is the immediate operand of the sizeof operator. Such usage is rare.
1252 there is a sequence point after the evaluation of the first operand.
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All side effects of the first expression except for destruction of temporaries (12.2) happen before the second expression is evaluated.
The differences are discussed elsewhere.
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6.5.15 Conditional operator
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conditional-expression: logical-or-expression logical-or-expression ? expression : assignment-expression
Supporting an assignment-expression as the third operand enables the use of a throw-expression; for instance:
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1 z = can_I_deal_with_this() ? 42 : throw X;
Source developed using a C++ translator may contain uses of the conditional operator that are a constraint violation if processed by a C translator. For instance, the expression x?a:b=c will need to be rewritten as x?a:(b=c).
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— The second and third operands have pointer type, or one has pointer type and the other is a null pointer constant; pointer conversions (4.10) and qualification conversions (4.4) are performed to bring them to their composite pointer type (5.9).
These conversions will not convert a pointer to an enumerated type to a pointer to integer type.
If one pointed-to type is an enumerated type and the other pointed-to type is the compatible integer type. C permits such operands to occur in the same conditional-expression. C++ does not. See pointer subtraction for an example.
— one operand is a pointer to an object or incomplete type and the other is a pointer to a qualified or 1262 unqualified version of void.
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The C++ Standard does not support implicit conversions from pointer to void to pointers to other types (4.10p2). Therefore, this combination of operand types is not permitted.
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1268 If an attempt is made to modify the result of a conditional operator or to access it after the next sequence point, the behavior is undefined.
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1273 Furthermore, if both operands are pointers to compatible types or to differently qualified versions of compatible types, the result type is a pointer to an appropriately qualified version of the composite type;
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Furthermore, if both operands are pointers to compatible types or differently qualified versions of a compatible type, the result has the composite type;
The C90 wording did not specify that the appropriate qualifiers were added after forming the composite type. In:
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the pointed-to type, which is the composite type of the enum and int types, is also qualified with const and volatile.
1275 otherwise, one operand is a pointer to void or a qualified version of void, in which case the result type is a pointer to an appropriately qualified version of void.
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otherwise, one operand is a pointer to void or a qualified version of void, in which case the other operand is converted to type pointer to void, and the result has that type.
C90 did not add any qualifies to the pointer to void type. In the case of the const qualifier this difference would not have been noticable (the resulting pointer type could not have been dereferenced without an explicit cast to modify the pointed-to object). In the case of the volatile qualifier this difference may result in values being accessed from registers in C90 while they will be accessed from storage in C99.
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The C++ Standard explicitly specifies the behavior for creating a composite pointer type (5.9p2) which is returned in this case.
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EXAMPLE The common type that results when the second and third operands are pointers is determined in 1277 two independent stages. The appropriate qualifiers, for example, do not depend on whether the two pointers
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const void *c_vp; void *vp;
const int *c_ip; volatile int *v_ip; int *ip;
const char *c_cp;
the third column in the following table is the common type that is the result of a conditional expression in which the first two columns are the second and third operands (in either order):
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For some types, a cast is an lvalue in C++.
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1279 An assignment operator shall have a modifiable lvalue as its left operand.
C90
The C99 Standard has removed the requirement, that was in C90, which lvalues refer to objects. This has resulted in the conformance status of the assignment 1=3 changing from a constraint violation to undefined behavior. The lvalue 1 does not designate an object and is not const-qualified. Therefore it is not ruled out from being modifiable in C99.
Semantics
1281 An assignment expression has the value of the left operand after the assignment, but is not an lvalue.
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. . . ; the result is an lvalue.
The C++ DR #222 (which at the time of this writing is at the drafting stage) queries some of the consequences of the result being an lvalue.
Source developed using a C++ translator may contain assignments that are a constraint violation if processed by a C translator.
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