https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118094
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |missed-optimization Severity|normal |enhancement --- Comment #4 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- So the transformation to remove the condition is not valid until https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3322.pdf which was only passed in October (see https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2024-October/244911.html also). Because your version of my_void_memcpy is well defined for src,dst being nullptr as long as size is 0. Before the referenced paper, it is undefined behavior if src/dst were a nullptr even if size is 0.