Comment 8 for bug 852760

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In , Jakub Jelinek (jakub-redhat) wrote :

Similar testcase is gcc's own libcpp/lex.c optimization, which also can access a few bytes after malloced area, as long as at least one byte in the value read is from within the malloced area. See search_line_* routines in lex.c, not just SSE4.2/SSE2, but also even the generic C version actually does this.
I guess valgrind could mark somehow the extra bytes as undefined content and propagate it through following arithmetic instructions, complain only if some conditional jump was made solely on the undefined bits or if the undefined bits were stored somewhere (or similar heuristics).