https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91873
Bug ID: 91873 Summary: -Wreturn-type diagnostic location changes depending on optimization level and destructor declaration Product: gcc Version: 9.2.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: m101010a at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- $ cat x.cpp struct s { #ifdef HAS_DESTRUCTOR ~s(); #endif }; bool f(); int g() { s buf; if (f()) return 0; } $ g++ -Werror=return-type -O0 x.cpp x.cpp: In function ‘int g()’: x.cpp:12:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type] 12 | } | ^ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors $ g++ -Werror=return-type -O1 x.cpp x.cpp: In function ‘int g()’: x.cpp:12:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type] 12 | } | ^ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors $ g++ -Werror=return-type -DHAS_DESTRUCTOR -O0 x.cpp x.cpp: In function ‘int g()’: x.cpp:12:1: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type] 12 | } | ^ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors $ g++ -Werror=return-type -DHAS_DESTRUCTOR -O1 x.cpp x.cpp: In function ‘int g()’: x.cpp:9:7: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type] 9 | s buf; | ^~~ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.1.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp --enable-cet=auto Thread model: posix gcc version 9.1.0 (GCC) When -Wreturn-type locates the end of a function that has a variable with a non-trivial destructor, it will point at the closing brace when compiling with -O0, but points at the variable at -O1 and higher. This behavior was introduced in GCC 8; GCC 7 always pointed at the closing brace.