http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46182
Mikael Morin <mikael at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2010.10.26 14:29:15 CC| |mikael at gcc dot gnu.org Ever Confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Mikael Morin <mikael at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-26 14:29:15 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > Well! You can say the same thing for -fcheck=bounds if writing outside array > bounds gives you a segmentation fault! Nevertheless nobody will argue that > this > check is useless: it can save you hours of debugging to locate the line(s) in > which you do it. Well, my point was that an out of bound access doesn't necessarily faults whereas a NULL pointer access always does. Anyway, it can't do any harm. Confirmed.