https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107699
--- Comment #7 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> --- On Tue, 29 Nov 2022, carlosgalvezp at gmail dot com wrote: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107699 > > --- Comment #5 from Carlos Galvez <carlosgalvezp at gmail dot com> --- > > is not good programming practice. > > Sure. In the real world, we have asserts for this. However this is a problem > when we build for Release mode, in which asserts are disabled and thus this > warning pops up. Ah, fair enough - it's that GCC now figures the possibly out-of-bounds access. But yes, the diagnostic itself needs improvement. With C++23 you could try using [[assume]] to preserve the assertion.