The following avoids warning about completely out-of-bound accesses as uninitialized.
For GCC8 we likely want to enhance path isolation to catch those cases (and eventually issue a diagnostic about them). And we finally want to fix complete peeling to not introduce those accesses. Bootstrap and regtest running on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Richard. 2017-03-08 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR tree-optimization/79955 PR tree-optimization/79956 * tree-ssa-uninit.c (warn_uninitialized_vars): Do not warn for accesses that are completely outside of the variable. * gcc.dg/uninit-24.c: New testcase. Index: gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c (revision 245968) +++ gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c (working copy) @@ -287,6 +287,17 @@ warn_uninitialized_vars (bool warn_possi || TREE_NO_WARNING (base)) continue; + /* Do not warn if the access is fully outside of the + variable. */ + if (ref.size != -1 + && ref.max_size == ref.size + && (ref.offset + ref.size <= 0 + || (ref.offset >= 0 + && TREE_CODE (DECL_SIZE (base)) == INTEGER_CST + && compare_tree_int (DECL_SIZE (base), + ref.offset) <= 0))) + continue; + /* Limit the walking to a constant number of stmts after we overcommit quadratic behavior for small functions and O(n) behavior. */ Index: gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-24.c =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-24.c (nonexistent) +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-24.c (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +/* { dg-do compile } */ +/* { dg-options "-O -Wmaybe-uninitialized" } */ + +int foo (int x) +{ + int y; + if (x) + return *(&y + 1); /* { dg-bogus "may be used uninitialized" } */ + return 0; +}