https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92995
Bug ID: 92995 Summary: -Wmisleading-indentation and multiline string literals Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: palves at redhat dot com Target Milestone: --- clang 10 caught a misleading indentation in gdb that GCC missed: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-12/msg00733.html It appears that the issue is the line continuation in the string literal. Here's a minimal reproducer: $ cat indentation.c void g (const char *); void f1 (void) { if (1) g ("hello\n"); g ("\n"); // warns } void f2 (void) { if (1) g ("hello\ \n"); g ("\n"); // does not warn } $ /opt/gcc/bin/gcc -c -Wall indentation.c indentation.c: In function ‘f1’: indentation.c:5:3: warning: this ‘if’ clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation] 5 | if (1) | ^~ indentation.c:7:5: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the ‘if’ 7 | g ("\n"); // warns | ^ $ /opt/gcc/bin/gcc --version gcc (GCC) 10.0.0 20191218 (experimental)