http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60121
Bug ID: 60121 Summary: gcc does not warn an obvious out-of-bound array access at -O0 and -O1 Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: su at cs dot ucdavis.edu For the given testcase below, gcc doesn't warn the out-of-bound array access at -O0 and -O1, but does at -Os and above, while clang warns at all optimization levels. Since the out-of-bound access is obvious, I wonder whether gcc should also warn at -O0 and -O1. This affects the current gcc trunk and all earlier versions. $ gcc-trunk -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc-trunk COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/gcc-trunk/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-trunk --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-werror --enable-multilib Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.0 20140208 (experimental) [trunk revision 207627] (GCC) $ $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -O0 small.c $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -O1 small.c $ $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -Os small.c small.c: In function ‘main’: small.c:8:10: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] if (b[613]) ^ $ $ clang-trunk -Warray-bounds -O0 small.c small.c:8:9: warning: array index 613 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds] if (b[613]) ^ ~~~ small.c:1:1: note: array 'b' declared here int a, b[1]; ^ 1 warning generated. $