Created attachment 57667 [details] minified test case The compiler option -Waddress erroneously reports a warning for the attached simplified test case (warn_gcc.c): $ gcc -Waddress warn_gcc.c -o warn_gcc warn_gcc.c: In function ‘func’: warn_gcc.c:17:49: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘value’ will never be NULL [-Waddress] 17 | return (condA>0 ? cont->value : (int*)NULL) ? "foo" : "bar"; | ^ warn_gcc.c:13:9: note: ‘value’ declared here 13 | int value[1]; | ^~~~~ $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 12.2.0-14' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-12/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2 --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-12 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --enable-libphobos-checking=release --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --enable-cet --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-12-bTRWOB/gcc-12-12.2.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,amdgcn-amdhsa=/build/gcc-12-bTRWOB/gcc-12-12.2.0/debian/tmp-gcn/usr --enable-offload-defaulted --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd gcc version 12.2.0 (Debian 12.2.0-14) $ uname -a Linux linux64c 6.1.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version 12.5
I think the warning is correct as: (condA>0 ? cont->value : (int*)NULL) Here cont->value can never be null due to c rules. The above can be simplified to just `condA>0` then. See pr 102967 too.
Dup of at least PR 105628 . *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 105628 ***