Potentially false-positive -Wstringop-overflow= warning with gcc >= 11.1

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 20:44:25 GMT 2022


On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 18:35, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 10:12:44AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 at 23:55, Martin Sebor via Gcc-help
> > > There's plenty of literature out there that explains this, including
> > > the GCC manual, so I'd expect most C/C++ programmers to understand
> > > that.
> >
> > I disagree. So does the manual:
> >
> >       -Warray-bounds
> >       -Warray-bounds=n
> >           This option is only active when -ftree-vrp is active
> > (default for -O2 and above). It
> >           warns about subscripts to arrays that are always out of
> > bounds. This warning is
> >           enabled by -Wall.
>
> Yes, that is wrong as written.  Please open a PR?

Done: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104355


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