https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=111261
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hubicka at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #2 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- In fact with trunk we diagnose this properly with -std=c++17 but not -std=c++20. With -std=c++20 we see <bb 2> [local count: 1073741824]: _35 = operator new (21); __builtin_memcpy (_35, "A rather long string", 20); MEM[(char_type &)_35 + 20] = 0; operator delete (_35, 21); s ={v} {CLOBBER}; s ={v} {CLOBBER(eol)}; return 0; at the point we would be supposed to diagnose the init but you can see that 's' was elided. One issue is probably that we elide the standalone S::S() during IPA (because we inline it) and thus fail to run the late diagnostic passes on its optimized body: void S::S (struct S * const this) { struct allocator D.46788; struct string * _1; struct string * _2; long unsigned int _8; <bb 2> [local count: 1073741824]: _8 = MEM[(const struct basic_string *)this_3(D) + 8B]._M_string_length; *this_3(D).len = _8; _1 = &this_3(D)->s; std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>::basic_string<> (_1, "A rather long string", &D.46788); D.46788 ={v} {CLOBBER(eol)}; return; of course we lack a start-of-live CLOBBER of *this here (I think I've seen this before), so we'd fail to diagnose this body as well.