https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105329
Bug ID: 105329 Summary: Bogus restrict warning when assigning 1-char string literal to std::string Product: gcc Version: 12.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: boris at kolpackov dot net Target Milestone: --- When compiling my codebase (build2) with GCC 12 (12.0.1 20220421) the output is littered with new bogus (AFAICS) -Wrestrict warnings that seems to be triggered by any attempt to assign or append a 1-char string literal to std::string: $ cat <<EOF >bogus-restrict.cxx #include <string> void f (std::string& s) { s = "5"; } EOF $ g++ -Wall -Wextra -O3 -c -std=c++23 bogus-restrict.cxx In file included from /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/string:40, from bogus-restrict.cxx:1: In static member function ‘static constexpr std::char_traits<char>::char_type* std::char_traits<char>::copy(char_type*, const char_type*, std::size_t)’, inlined from ‘static constexpr void std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_S_copy(_CharT*, const _CharT*, size_type) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/bits/basic_string.h:423:21, inlined from ‘constexpr std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Allocator>& std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::_M_replace(size_type, size_type, const _CharT*, size_type) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/bits/basic_string.tcc:532:22, inlined from ‘constexpr std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::assign(const _CharT*) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/bits/basic_string.h:1647:19, inlined from ‘constexpr std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& std::__cxx11::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::operator=(const _CharT*) [with _CharT = char; _Traits = std::char_traits<char>; _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ at /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/bits/basic_string.h:815:28, inlined from ‘void f(std::string&)’ at bogus-restrict.cxx:5:7: /home/boris/work/build2/tests/modules/gcc2/gcc-install/include/c++/12.0.1/bits/char_traits.h:431:56: warning: ‘void* __builtin_memcpy(void*, const void*, long unsigned int)’ accessing 9223372036854775810 or more bytes at offsets -4611686018427387902 and [-4611686018427387903, 4611686018427387904] may overlap up to 9223372036854775813 bytes at offset -3 [-Wrestrict] 431 | return static_cast<char_type*>(__builtin_memcpy(__s1, __s2, __n)); |