https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97817
Bug ID: 97817 Summary: -Wformat-truncation=2 elicits invalid warning Product: gcc Version: 11.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: jim at meyering dot net Target Milestone: --- Here's the invalid warning. The buffer's size is obviously not 6. It is AT LEAST 6. $ gcc -Wformat-truncation=2 -O2 -c strerror_r.c strerror_r.c: In function ‘strerror_r’: strerror_r.c:12:35: warning: ‘Unknown error ’ directive output truncated writing 14 bytes into a region of size 6 [-Wformat-truncation=] 12 | snprintf (buf, buflen, "Unknown error %d", errnum); | ~~~~~~^~~~~~~~ strerror_r.c:12:5: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 16 and 26 bytes into a destination of size 6 12 | snprintf (buf, buflen, "Unknown error %d", errnum); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's the reduced test case (from gnulib's strerror.c): $ cat strerror_r.c #define size_t unsigned long long extern int snprintf (char *__restrict __s, size_t __maxlen, const char *__restrict __format, ...) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4))); extern int __xpg_strerror_r (int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen); int strerror_r (int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen) { if (buflen <= 5) return 9; int ret = __xpg_strerror_r (errnum, buf, buflen); if (ret == 1 && !*buf) snprintf (buf, buflen, "Unknown error %d", errnum); return ret; }