https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107274
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blocks| |24639 Resolution|--- |INVALID Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED --- Comment #2 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- No, the issue is that you are accessing 8 bytes on the read and thus the padding you access that way is not initialized. Use *(unsigned int)b and the diagnostic goes away. [internally GCC doesn't consider an indirect load of size 8 ever aliasing a store to a 4 byte object - otherwise we wouldn't diagnose a partial uninit value -- like void example(unsigned long val) { char b[8]; b[0] = val; b[1] = val >> 8; b[2] = val >> 16; b[3] = val >> 24; val = *(unsigned long *)b; } which isn't diagnosed] Referenced Bugs: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24639 [Bug 24639] [meta-bug] bug to track all Wuninitialized issues