Hi! On the following testcase we ICE, because after we emit the variable-sized object may not be initialized except with an empty initializer error we don't really reset the initializer to error_mark_node and then at -Wformat checking time we ICE on seeing STRING_CST initializer for a VLA.
The following patch just arranges for error_mark_node to be returned after the error diagnostics. Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux and i686-linux, ok for trunk? 2023-04-14 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> PR c/109409 * c-parser.cc (c_parser_initializer): Move diagnostics about initialization of variable sized object with non-empty initializer after c_parser_expr_no_commas call and ret.set_error (); after it. * gcc.dg/pr109409.c: New test. --- gcc/c/c-parser.cc.jj 2023-02-18 12:38:30.759025693 +0100 +++ gcc/c/c-parser.cc 2023-04-13 13:09:13.287373656 +0200 @@ -5677,11 +5677,14 @@ c_parser_initializer (c_parser *parser, { struct c_expr ret; location_t loc = c_parser_peek_token (parser)->location; - if (decl != error_mark_node && C_DECL_VARIABLE_SIZE (decl)) - error_at (loc, - "variable-sized object may not be initialized except " - "with an empty initializer"); ret = c_parser_expr_no_commas (parser, NULL); + if (decl != error_mark_node && C_DECL_VARIABLE_SIZE (decl)) + { + error_at (loc, + "variable-sized object may not be initialized except " + "with an empty initializer"); + ret.set_error (); + } /* This is handled mostly by gimplify.cc, but we have to deal with not warning about int x = x; as it is a GCC extension to turn off this warning but only if warn_init_self is zero. */ --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr109409.c.jj 2023-04-13 13:31:52.865765576 +0200 +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/pr109409.c 2023-04-13 13:13:26.994714440 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +/* PR c/109409 */ +/* { dg-do compile } */ +/* { dg-options "-Wall" } */ + +void +foo (int n) +{ + const char c[n] = "1"; /* { dg-error "variable-sized object may not be initialized except with an empty initializer" } */ + __builtin_printf (c); +} Jakub