https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97858
--- Comment #8 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Well, so one enhancement request would be for va_list fields don't warn about the internal fields, but warn about use of uninitialized va_list itself. And the second thing is if the if (tail) va_start (ap, tail); for (bool first = true; str; first = false) { use (str); if (first) str = tail; else str = va_arg (ap, char *); } if (tail) va_end (ap); is something uninit infrastructure should understand as never doing va_arg if tail (the condition guarding va_start) is NULL.