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Fixes #434.

In GNU modes, a break inside a statement expression in the condition of a switch was bound to that switch instead of to the enclosing loop or switch. GCC and Clang bind it to the enclosing one. A case or default label in such a condition was likewise attached to the inner switch. With this change, it's now diagnosed as a transfer of control into a statement expression, as in GCC.

The front end now flags a switch statement's stack entry while its condition is scanned, so the search for the target of a break, case or default skips that switch. In the interepreter, a switch now completes a break only if control entered its body. A break executed in its condition goes on to the enclosing statement.

This change depends on #419.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed constant evaluation of break, continue, and return in GNU statement expressions, including expressions used in switch conditions.
    • Corrected C++20 constant evaluation when switch case labels enter statements or loops, including reevaluation of loop conditions.
    • Fixed the lifetime and destruction timing of variables declared in control-statement conditions, initializer statements, and range-based for loops.
    • Corrected cleanup and control-transfer behavior when loops, statements, or routines exit, including destructor execution.
    • Improved diagnostics for invalid break statements and control transfers involving statement expressions in switch conditions.

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The interpreter now uses shared pending-transfer state and resumable work for control flow, loop execution, and switch-case entry. Cleanup handles transfers and object lifetimes. The PR adds regression tests and release notes for constant-evaluation behavior.

Changes: Constant-evaluation control flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared transfers and unwinding
src/interpret.c, tests/tests/changes/gh-401.sft.cpp, tests/tests/regressions/*, tests/tests/imported/clang/cpp/SemaCXX/.constant-expression-cxx14.rto/*, src/pending_changes/gh-401-*
Interpreter work propagates pending transfers through cleanup and routine completion. Tests cover statement expressions, loop exits, destructor behavior, and related constant-evaluation results.
Loop execution and iteration cleanup
src/interpret.c, tests/tests/changes/gh-403.sft.cpp, tests/tests/changes/gh-404.sft.cpp, tests/tests/changes/.gh-403.rto/*, tests/tests/changes/.gh-404.rto/*, src/pending_changes/gh-403-*, src/pending_changes/gh-404-*
Loop work handles setup, tests, increments, body execution, and cleanup. Condition variables and range-loop variables are destroyed at statement or iteration boundaries represented in the tests.
Switch-case entry and condition binding
src/interpret.c, src/statements.[ch], tests/tests/changes/gh-402.sft.cpp, tests/tests/changes/gh-411.sft.cpp, tests/tests/changes/gh-434.sft.cpp, tests/tests/changes/.gh-402.rto/*, tests/tests/changes/.gh-411.rto/*, tests/tests/changes/.gh-434.rto/*, tests/tests/imported/clang/cpp/SemaCXX/.constant-expression-cxx2a.rto/*, src/pending_changes/gh-402-*, src/pending_changes/gh-411-*, src/pending_changes/gh-434-*
Switch processing selects a case and enters eligible nested statements, including supported loop bodies. Switch-condition scanning excludes that switch when resolving labels and break targets. Tests cover case entry and statement expressions in switch conditions.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SwitchContinuation
  participant StatementWork
  participant BlockWork
  SwitchContinuation->>StatementWork: Set selected switch entry
  StatementWork->>BlockWork: Locate statement containing selected case
  BlockWork->>StatementWork: Resume at selected statement
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  • edgcpp/compiler#419: Introduces pending-transfer handling and resumable loop and switch execution that this PR extends.

Suggested reviewers: wchilders-nvidia, nv-cmeerw

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 941b0

This change reworks how break, continue, return and switch entry work during constant evaluation, and it fixes several earlier lifetime and control-flow bugs. A few edge cases in GNU statement expressions can still produce a wrong constant value or a spurious fallthrough diagnostic. Fix the loop-test break handling and the leaked pending transfers before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 941b0

The change alters how nested control flow and cleanup interact, without an identified increase in privileges or access. Residual risk is low because unusual failure paths were assessed statically rather than exhaustively validated.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant input is source code submitted for constant evaluation, and the affected execution context is the hosting compiler process. The changed state belongs to interpreter invocations; the inspected changes do not establish a new service, tenant, credential or deployment authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Destructor execution still checks that the callee is constexpr, defined and interpretable, and rejects execution when the existing cost limit is exceeded before pushing its body. Transfer propagation does not remove these checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — During failure or pending transfer, the work runner discards ordinary work but retains work requiring cleanup. It enforces the nested-work stack floor and clears a transfer when nested interpretation fails, supporting containment of aborted evaluation.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1 · Inconclusive 1

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Out of Scope Changes check Warning The pull request also adds release notes and tests for GH #401, #402, #403, #404, and #411. It changes imported diagnostic baselines and expands constexpr-control-flow.sft.cpp for those issues. Thes… Remove the GH #401, #402, #403, #404, and #411 release notes, tests, and diagnostic-baseline changes. Submit those changes separately. Keep the #434 implementation and its supporting interpreter and regression-test changes.
Docstring Coverage Inconclusive Docstring coverage is 41.51% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: handling break in a statement expression used as a switch condition. It also includes the relevant issue reference.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #434 requires a break in a GNU statement expression used as a switch condition to target the enclosing loop or switch. src/statements.c marks the switch while scanning its condition, so ta…
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Issue #434 requires a break in a GNU statement expression used as a switch condition to target the enclosing loop or switch. src/statements.c marks the switch while scanning its condition, so target lookup skips that switch. The interpreter changes propagate the pending break until the entered target completes it. tests/tests/changes/gh-434.sft.cpp checks enclosing-switch, enclosing-loop, nested-switch, constant-evaluation, and runtime behavior.

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The pull request also adds release notes and tests for GH #401, #402, #403, #404, and #411. It changes imported diagnostic baselines and expands constexpr-control-flow.sft.cpp for those issues. These changes do not implement issue #434 and are outside its coding scope.

Resolution

Remove the GH #401, #402, #403, #404, and #411 release notes, tests, and diagnostic-baseline changes. Submit those changes separately. Keep the #434 implementation and its supporting interpreter and regression-test changes.

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Comment thread src/interpret.c
Comment on lines +6397 to +6405
if (ips->failed) {
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
result = FALSE;
} else if (!transfer_pending(ips)) {
ips->transfer = saved_transfer;
result = TRUE;
} else {
result = FALSE;
} /* if */

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Clear pending transfers from recovering evaluations.

run_pushed_work returns FALSE when pushed work leaves a control transfer pending. The __builtin_constant_p branch converts that result to zero_int and continues without clearing ips->transfer. do_assumption_check also treats a failed evaluation as non-fatal and returns TRUE without clearing the transfer.

A break or continue in a GNU statement expression can target the enclosing loop. Clear the pending transfer in both recovery branches.

🐛 Suggested fix
           if (alloc_complete_object(ips, n_bytes, arg_type, arg1_bytes) &&
               do_constexpr_expression(ips, args, arg1_bytes, arg1_bytes)) {
             *(an_integer_value*)result_storage = one_int;
           } else {
+            /* A transfer from a probed operand is not executed. */
+            ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
             *(an_integer_value*)result_storage = zero_int;
           }  /* if */
     } else {
       /* Failing to evaluate the assumption expression doesn't cause the
          constant evaluation to fail. */
+      ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
     }  /* if */
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In the __builtin_constant_p recovery branch that converts failed evaluation to
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Comment thread src/interpret.c
Comment on lines +6292 to +6303
static a_boolean routine_body_completed(an_interpreter_state *ips)
/*
Return TRUE if the current call frame has an unresolved return, break, or
continue.
The top-level block of a routine that was pushed as a work item has just been
interpreted. Complete a pending return statement, and return TRUE if the
block completed normally or through such a return statement.
*/
{
a_call_frame_ptr frame = ips->curr_call_frame;
a_boolean active = FALSE;

if (frame != NULL) {
active = frame->return_active || frame->loop_break_active ||
frame->continue_active || frame->switch_break_active;
if (ips->transfer.kind == ctk_return) {
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
} /* if */
return active;
} /* control_transfer_active */
return work_completed_normally(ips);
} /* routine_body_completed */

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Stop loop and switch transfers at the function boundary.

routine_body_completed consumes only ctk_return. A pending ctk_loop_break, ctk_switch_break or ctk_continue therefore leaves the callee with ips->failed still FALSE. It then passes through process_call_work, process_dtor_work and process_ctor_work into the caller. These transfers can never correctly leave a function, so interpretation should fail at this point. That turns any binding error, such as the loop-test case above, into a clean "not a constant expression" result instead of a wrong value. ctk_throw must still propagate.

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 {
   if (ips->transfer.kind == ctk_return) {
     ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
+  } else if (ips->transfer.kind != ctk_none &&
+             ips->transfer.kind != ctk_throw) {
+    /* A break or continue cannot leave a routine. */
+    ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
+    ips->failed = TRUE;
   }  /* if */
   return work_completed_normally(ips);
 }  /* routine_body_completed */
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static a_boolean routine_body_completed(an_interpreter_state *ips)
/*
Return TRUE if the current call frame has an unresolved return, break, or
continue.
The top-level block of a routine that was pushed as a work item has just been
interpreted. Complete a pending return statement, and return TRUE if the
block completed normally or through such a return statement.
*/
{
a_call_frame_ptr frame = ips->curr_call_frame;
a_boolean active = FALSE;
if (frame != NULL) {
active = frame->return_active || frame->loop_break_active ||
frame->continue_active || frame->switch_break_active;
if (ips->transfer.kind == ctk_return) {
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
} /* if */
return active;
} /* control_transfer_active */
return work_completed_normally(ips);
} /* routine_body_completed */
static a_boolean routine_body_completed(an_interpreter_state *ips)
/*
The top-level block of a routine that was pushed as a work item has just been
interpreted. Complete a pending return statement, and return TRUE if the
block completed normally or through such a return statement.
*/
{
if (ips->transfer.kind == ctk_return) {
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
} else if (ips->transfer.kind != ctk_none &&
ips->transfer.kind != ctk_throw) {
/* A break or continue cannot leave a routine. */
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
ips->failed = TRUE;
} /* if */
return work_completed_normally(ips);
} /* routine_body_completed */
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Review comment at @src/interpret.c around lines 6292 - 6303:
Update routine_body_completed to consume ctk_return as it does now, and mark
interpretation failed when any other pending transfer is neither ctk_none nor
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Comment thread src/interpret.c
Comment on lines +9792 to +9808
if (result) {
if (eval_loop_test(ips, sw, expr, &result)) {
push_stmt_work(ips, stmt->variant.loop_statement);
item->phase = iwp_2nd_resume;
pop_when_done = FALSE;
goto done;
} /* if */
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
do_constexpr_condition_cleanup(ips, expr);
} /* if */
if (!result) goto while_cleanup;
item->phase = iwp_1st_resume;
} /* if */
while_cleanup:
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
end_cond_var_iteration(ips, sw, &result);
do_constexpr_condition_dealloc(ips, expr, &sw->saved_stack, &result);
} /* if */
break;

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A break in a loop test or increment leaves the wrong loop.

The front end binds break in a GNU statement expression to the current while, do-while, or for loop. The interpreter does not consume ctk_loop_break after eval_loop_test or eval_loop_increment. The pending transfer can therefore escape to an enclosing loop instead of completing the target loop.

Apply the same ctk_loop_break handling used for a switch condition after the while test, do-while test, for increment, and for test. Preserve the existing ctk_continue behavior until its required semantics are established.

🐛 Suggested fix
       if (result) {
         if (eval_loop_test(ips, sw, expr, &result)) {
           push_stmt_work(ips, stmt->variant.loop_statement);
           item->phase = iwp_2nd_resume;
           pop_when_done = FALSE;
           goto done;
         }  /* if */
+        if (!result && !ips->failed &&
+            ips->transfer.kind == ctk_loop_break) {
+          /* A break in the loop test (in a GNU statement expression)
+             applies to this loop. */
+          ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
+          result = TRUE;
+        }  /* if */
         if (sw->has_cond_var) {
           do_constexpr_condition_cleanup(ips, expr);
         }  /* if */
       }  /* if */
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Suggested change
if (result) {
if (eval_loop_test(ips, sw, expr, &result)) {
push_stmt_work(ips, stmt->variant.loop_statement);
item->phase = iwp_2nd_resume;
pop_when_done = FALSE;
goto done;
} /* if */
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
do_constexpr_condition_cleanup(ips, expr);
} /* if */
if (!result) goto while_cleanup;
item->phase = iwp_1st_resume;
} /* if */
while_cleanup:
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
end_cond_var_iteration(ips, sw, &result);
do_constexpr_condition_dealloc(ips, expr, &sw->saved_stack, &result);
} /* if */
break;
if (result) {
if (eval_loop_test(ips, sw, expr, &result)) {
push_stmt_work(ips, stmt->variant.loop_statement);
item->phase = iwp_2nd_resume;
pop_when_done = FALSE;
goto done;
} /* if */
if (!result && !ips->failed &&
ips->transfer.kind == ctk_loop_break) {
/* A break in the loop test (in a GNU statement expression)
applies to this loop. */
ips->transfer.kind = ctk_none;
result = TRUE;
} /* if */
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
do_constexpr_condition_cleanup(ips, expr);
} /* if */
} /* if */
while_cleanup:
if (sw->has_cond_var) {
end_cond_var_iteration(ips, sw, &result);
do_constexpr_condition_dealloc(ips, expr, &sw->saved_stack, &result);
} /* if */
break;
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Review comment at @src/interpret.c around lines 9792 - 9808:
Update the while, do-while, and for loop flows to consume a pending
ctk_loop_break after evaluating each loop test and the for increment, completing
the targeted loop instead of propagating the transfer outward. Apply the
handling alongside eval_loop_test and eval_loop_increment, and preserve existing
ctk_continue behavior.

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Comment thread src/statements.c
while (sssep != &struct_stmt_stack[0]) {
kind = sssep->kind;
if (find_switch && kind == ssk_switch) {
if (find_switch && kind == ssk_switch && !sssep->in_switch_condition) {

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Preserve switch visibility for in_switch_statement.

A plain condition declaration does not invoke this statement-only handler. However, a GNU statement expression in the switch condition can contain an empty statement with [[fallthrough]]. apply_fallthrough_attr then sees in_switch_statement() == FALSE and reports ec_fallthrough_not_in_switch.

Keep condition skipping for break, case, and default lookup, but use a separate predicate for apply_fallthrough_attr that does not skip the active switch.

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Review comment at @src/statements.c at line 3557:
Separate the switch-condition exclusion used for break, case, and default lookup
from the switch visibility check used by apply_fallthrough_attr. Preserve
condition skipping for those lookups, but ensure a GNU statement expression in
an active switch condition still lets apply_fallthrough_attr recognize the
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