https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74762
--- Comment #5 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Patrick Palka from comment #1) > Looks like warn_uninit() suppresses the warning on 'i' because the > TREE_NO_WARNING flag is set on the ARRAY_REF by the C++ FE (in > finish_parenthesized_expr(), for an unrelated purpose). I wonder if a quick work-around for this case in particular is to check for: if (TREE_CODE (expr) == MODIFY_EXPR) like the C parser does: /* A parenthesized expression. */ location_t loc_open_paren = c_parser_peek_token (parser)->location; c_parser_consume_token (parser); expr = c_parser_expression (parser); if (TREE_CODE (expr.value) == MODIFY_EXPR) TREE_NO_WARNING (expr.value) = 1; if (expr.original_code != C_MAYBE_CONST_EXPR) expr.original_code = ERROR_MARK; /* Don't change EXPR.ORIGINAL_TYPE. */ location_t loc_close_paren = c_parser_peek_token (parser)->location; set_c_expr_source_range (&expr, loc_open_paren, loc_close_paren); c_parser_skip_until_found (parser, CPP_CLOSE_PAREN, "expected %<)%>"); Then the bug will only trigger for code such as ((lhs=rhs)), which is what TREE_NO_WARNING is trying to avoid warning for.