https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85259
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |diagnostic Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2018-04-06 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- With -Wno-system-headers GCC 8 prints: In file included from /usr/include/string.h:635, from pr85259.c:1: In function ‘strcat’, inlined from ‘main’ at pr85259.c:8:3: /usr/include/bits/string3.h:148:10: warning: ‘__builtin___memcpy_chk’ forming offset [7, 13] is out of the bounds [0, 6] of object ‘buf’ with type ‘char[6]’ [-Warray-bounds] return __builtin___strcat_chk (__dest, __src, __bos (__dest)); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pr85259.c: In function ‘main’: pr85259.c:3:6: note: ‘buf’ declared here char buf[6]; ^~~ This is better but it's a warning for the strcat call while there should be a warning for the strcpy() call first because it overflows the buffer. A bug in handle_builtin_strcpy() in tree-ssa-strlen causes GCC to miss this case. So there are two bugs in play here: the system header suppression and the detection of strcpy overflow with a string literal.