https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81782
Bug ID: 81782 Summary: Yet another -Wmaybe-uninitialized false positive with empty array Product: gcc Version: 8.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: middle-end Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: mpolacek at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- I hope this isn't a duplicate of one of the many similar PRs. This one happens with -O0. Also, if you remove the (int) cast, the warning disappears, because then we get rid of the if conditional. $ ./cc1 -quiet w.c -Wall w.c: In function ‘foo’: w.c:8:22: warning: ‘empty_array[i]’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] ret = empty_array[i]; ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~ int foo (void) { char empty_array[] = { }; int i, ret = 0; for (i = 0; i < (int) (sizeof (empty_array) / sizeof (empty_array[0])); i++) ret = empty_array[i]; return ret; }