https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104746
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|--- |INVALID Status|NEW |RESOLVED --- Comment #12 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The documented purpose of -Wformat-overflow=2 is to point out potential problems, including those where an argument is not known to be sufficiently constrained. (Level 1 behaves close to what you expect.) Level 2 is not enabled in -Wall or -Wextra and must be explicitly enabled. Different designe choices are of course possible but since some projects are using it as is it's useful as designed. This is not a bug.