https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91187
--- Comment #7 from Harald van Dijk <harald at gigawatt dot nl> --- (In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #5) > (In reply to Harald van Dijk from comment #3) > > If the header files cannot be modified, the -isystem command-line option > > also causes included files to be treated as system headers where warnings > > are suppressed. > > The thing is, this isn't happening. If you compile the attached > main-glib.cpp with > > g++ -c -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant main.cpp -isystem > /usr/include/glib-2.0/ -isystem /usr/lib/glib-2.0/include Huh, indeed. It works with the Ubuntu-provided GCC 8.3.0. It does not work with the Ubuntu-provided GCC 9.1.0. $ g++-8 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++-8 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-8 --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-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 8.3.0 (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1) $ g++-9 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++-9 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 9.1.0-2ubuntu2~19.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-9 --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-bootstrap --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 --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 9.1.0 (Ubuntu 9.1.0-2ubuntu2~19.04) $ g++-8 -c -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant main.cpp -isystem /usr/include/glib-2.0 -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include $ g++-9 -c -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant main.cpp -isystem /usr/include/glib-2.0 -isystem /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include main.cpp: In function ‘GType poppler_annot_get_type()’: main.cpp:16:1: warning: zero as null pointer constant [-Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant] 16 | G_DEFINE_TYPE (PopplerAnnot, poppler_annot, G_TYPE_OBJECT) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ With GCC 9 without -isystem, it still shows the warning as coming from the header ("/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:250:42: warning: zero as null pointer constant"), but when -isystem is used like that, the warning location is moved to main.cpp, so no longer suppressed. I do not know at this moment whether this is an intentional change in GCC 9.