https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115477
--- Comment #2 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Note with -fsanitize=address we get errors as one would expect: ================================================================= ==1==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow on address 0x7dc0b8500030 at pc 0x0000004012de bp 0x7ffdaad9b020 sp 0x7ffdaad9b018 READ of size 8 at 0x7dc0b8500030 thread T0 #0 0x4012dd in bug(float) (/app/output.s+0x4012dd) (BuildId: a1b2ef91caf86d8cdb54f9543157d73b050c2ddf) #1 0x401456 in main (/app/output.s+0x401456) (BuildId: a1b2ef91caf86d8cdb54f9543157d73b050c2ddf) #2 0x7dc0ba229d8f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x29d8f) (BuildId: 962015aa9d133c6cbcfb31ec300596d7f44d3348) #3 0x7dc0ba229e3f in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x29e3f) (BuildId: 962015aa9d133c6cbcfb31ec300596d7f44d3348) #4 0x401114 in _start (/app/output.s+0x401114) (BuildId: a1b2ef91caf86d8cdb54f9543157d73b050c2ddf) Address 0x7dc0b8500030 is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 48 in frame #0 0x4011e5 in bug(float) (/app/output.s+0x4011e5) (BuildId: a1b2ef91caf86d8cdb54f9543157d73b050c2ddf) This frame has 2 object(s): [48, 52) 'y' (line 5) <== Memory access at offset 48 partially overflows this variable [64, 72) 'i' (line 4) HINT: this may be a false positive if your program uses some custom stack unwind mechanism, swapcontext or vfork (longjmp and C++ exceptions *are* supported) SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: stack-buffer-overflow (/app/output.s+0x4012dd) (BuildId: a1b2ef91caf86d8cdb54f9543157d73b050c2ddf) in bug(float) Shadow bytes around the buggy address: 0x7dc0b84ffd80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b84ffe00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b84ffe80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b84fff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b84fff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 =>0x7dc0b8500000: f1 f1 f1 f1 f1 f1[04]f2 00 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b8500080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b8500100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b8500180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b8500200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x7dc0b8500280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes): Addressable: 00 Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Heap left redzone: fa Freed heap region: fd Stack left redzone: f1 Stack mid redzone: f2 Stack right redzone: f3 Stack after return: f5 Stack use after scope: f8 Global redzone: f9 Global init order: f6 Poisoned by user: f7 Container overflow: fc Array cookie: ac Intra object redzone: bb ASan internal: fe Left alloca redzone: ca Right alloca redzone: cb ==1==ABORTING