https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103483
Bug ID: 103483 Summary: constexpr basic_string triggers stringop-overread Product: gcc Version: 12.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: john at mcfarlane dot name Target Milestone: --- As of 9a27acc30a34b7854db32eac562306cebac6fa1e, "Make full use of context-sensitive ranges in access warnings.", this source.cpp #include <string> template <int a> void c(int d) { char buffer[a] = {}; std::string(buffer, buffer+d); } int main() { c<1>(1); } with command line: `~/gcc-head/bin/g++ -Werror=stringop-overread -O1 -std=c++20 source.cpp` emits: /home/john/ws/wide/cnl/build/source.cpp In file included from /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/string:40, from /home/john/ws/wide/cnl/build/source.cpp:1: In static member function ‘static constexpr std::char_traits<char>::char_type* std::char_traits<char>::copy(std::char_traits<char>::char_type*, const std::char_traits<char>::char_type*, std::size_t)’, inlined from ‘static void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_S_copy(_CharT*, const _CharT*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::size_type) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.h:361:21, inlined from ‘static void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_S_copy_chars(_CharT*, _CharT*, _CharT*) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.h:403:16, inlined from ‘void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_M_construct(_InIterator, _InIterator, std::forward_iterator_tag) [with _FwdIterator = char*; _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.tcc:225:25, inlined from ‘void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_M_construct_aux(_InIterator, _InIterator, std::__false_type) [with _InIterator = char*; _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.h:257:23, inlined from ‘void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_M_construct(_InIterator, _InIterator) [with _InIterator = char*; _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.h:276:20, inlined from ‘std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::basic_string(_InputIterator, _InputIterator, const _Alloc&) [with _InputIterator = char*; <template-parameter-2-2> = void; _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/basic_string.h:645:16, inlined from ‘void c(int) [with int a = 1]’ at /home/john/ws/wide/cnl/build/source.cpp:4:8: /home/john/gcc-head/include/c++/12.0.0/bits/char_traits.h:355:56: error: ‘void* __builtin_memcpy(void*, const void*, long unsigned int)’ reading between 2 and 2147483647 bytes from a region of size 1 [-Werror=stringop-overread] 355 | return static_cast<char_type*>(__builtin_memcpy(__s1, __s2, __n)); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /home/john/ws/wide/cnl/build/source.cpp: In function ‘void c(int) [with int a = 1]’: /home/john/ws/wide/cnl/build/source.cpp:3:8: note: source object ‘buffer’ of size 1 3 | char buffer[a] = {}; | ^~~~~~ cc1plus: some warnings being treated as errors Still emitting this warning as of SHA 909b30a17e71253772d2cb174d0dae6d0b8c9401 Compiler Explorer: https://godbolt.org/z/n9cqarErc Also emits array-bounds warning with `-Wall -Wno-stringop-overread`. If this is a dupe of an 88443 issue, I'm not sure which one.