https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104789
Bug ID: 104789 Summary: [12 Regression] New -Wstringop-overflow false positive since r12-5863-g9354a7d70caef1c9 Product: gcc Version: 12.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: marxin at gcc dot gnu.org CC: msebor at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- It's originally reported here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/58747 $ cat godot-stringop.cpp #include <cstdint> #include <cstdio> uint32_t some_func(const uint32_t components) { uint8_t header[8]; uint32_t header_bytes = 0; for (uint32_t i = 0; i < components; i++) { header_bytes += 2; } header_bytes += 2; // This works it around, but shouldn't be needed AFAICT. //while (header_bytes != 8 && header_bytes % 4 != 0) { while (header_bytes % 4 != 0) { header[header_bytes++] = 0; } for (uint32_t i = 0; i < header_bytes; i++) { printf("%d\n", header[i]); } return header_bytes; } int main() { some_func(1); some_func(3); return 0; } $ g++ godot-stringop.cpp -c -Werror=all -O3 godot-stringop.cpp: In function ‘uint32_t some_func(uint32_t)’: godot-stringop.cpp:14:40: error: writing 1 byte into a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=] 14 | header[header_bytes++] = 0; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ godot-stringop.cpp:5:17: note: at offset 8 into destination object ‘header’ of size 8 5 | uint8_t header[8]; | ^~~~~~ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors