https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71392
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |ASSIGNED Last reconfirmed| |2016-06-02 Assignee|unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 Known to fail| |4.9.3, 5.3.0, 6.1.0, 7.0 --- Comment #1 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The root cause of this is that the built-ins are declared without the non-null attribute (analogous to, for example, __builtin_strlen). With the attribute added, GCC issues a warning when it sees an invocation of one like the one in comment #0: zzz.cpp:3:67: warning: null argument where non-null required (argument 3) [-Wnonnull] __builtin_printf ("%i\n", __builtin_sadd_overflow (1, 2, (int*)0)); ^ Since I'm working in this area let me put together a complete patch.