I reckon it's quite OK to write &p->field in C when p might be NULL,
and lots of old C programmers probably agree with me. However, ubsan
disagrees and so do some people I respect. I suspect C++ influence is
to blame for the ubsan behaviour. See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92634. So far no one has
educated me as to why I'm wrong to claim that there isn't anything in
the C standard to say that p->field is always (*p).field. Note 79
doesn't quite do that because it doesn't cover null pointers. If
there was such an equivalence then you could claim &p->field has a
null pointer reference when p is NULL, even though no C compiler would
ever dereference p.
Anyway, to silence ubsan I'm going to apply the following though I
prefer to avoid casts when possible. And I'm using (void *)
deliberately because this is C, not C++!
* ldlang.c (lang_output_section_find_by_flags): Don't use &p->field
when p might be NULL.
* ldelf.c (output_rel_find, ldelf_place_orphan): Likewise.
(insert_os_after, lang_insert_orphan, lookup_name): Likewise.
(strip_excluded_output_sections, lang_clear_os_map): Likewise.
(lang_check, lang_for_each_input_file): Likewise.
(lang_reset_memory_regions, find_replacements_insert_point): Likewise.
(find_rescan_insertion, lang_propagate_lma_regions): Likewise.
(lang_record_phdrs): Likewise.
* emultempl/alphaelf.em (alpha_after_open): Likewise.
* emultempl/mmo.em (mmo_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pep.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/ppc32elf.em (ppc_after_check_relocs): Likewise.
* emultempl/spuelf.em (spu_before_allocation): Likewise.
(embedded_spu_file): Likewise.
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