Compiling the attached testcase should produce a warning, as it does with g++ 4.3.2 (at least with -O or above),
$ g++-4.3 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -ansi -O3 hi.cpp /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h: In function int main(): /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:105: warning: hi.array<double, 4>::a[1] is used uninitialized in this function hi.cpp:29: note: hi.array<double, 4>::a[1] was declared here $ On g++ 4.4.2, however, the compiler produces no warning, $ g++ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -ansi -O3 hi.cpp $ $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.4.1-1ubuntu3' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-1ubuntu3) -- Summary: Uninitialized variable usage warning broken Product: gcc Version: 4.4.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: bgamari at gmail dot com GCC target triplet: x86_64-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41135