[Bug middle-end/81483] spurious -Wformat-overflow warning for limited types

[msebor at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81483

Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |diagnostic
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2017-07-19
                 CC|                            |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #1 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
The VRP pass computes the correct range for the sprintf argument but the range
made available outside the pass via the get_range_info() function for the
promoted argument is that of unsigned int (a similar problem is described in
bug 78969).  It's a bug/limitation in the range propagation machinery in GCC. 
I'm not sure there's an easy way to work around it in the sprintf pass.  If
not, hopefully the new VRP implementation will solve these problems.

Until then, a workaround is to unsigned int as the loop counter and cast it to
unsigned char in the sprintf call:

        unsigned zone;
        char buffer[10];

        for (zone = 0; zone != num_zones; zone++)
                __builtin_sprintf (buffer, "zone%02X", (unsigned char)zone);