http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60115
--- Comment #1 from Zhendong Su <su at cs dot ucdavis.edu> --- The reported testcase seems to reveal an independent issue: GCC does warn the out-of-bound array access at -Os and above, but not at -O0 and -O1, while clang warns at all optimization levels. $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -O0 small.c $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -O1 small.c $ $ gcc-trunk -Warray-bounds -Os small.c small.c: In function ‘main’: small.c:8:10: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds] if (b[613]) ^ $ $ clang-trunk -Warray-bounds -O0 small.c small.c:8:9: warning: array index 613 is past the end of the array (which contains 1 element) [-Warray-bounds] if (b[613]) ^ ~~~ small.c:1:1: note: array 'b' declared here int a, b[1]; ^ 1 warning generated. $