https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101446
Bug ID: 101446 Summary: -Wpedantic causes an error with zero size array Product: gcc Version: 11.1.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: ismail at i10z dot com Target Milestone: --- The test-case minimized but originally from glibc: ; cat gbk.c static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = { }; ; gcc -c gbk.c ; gcc -c -Wpedantic gbk.c gbk.c:2:1: warning: ISO C forbids empty initializer braces [-Wpedantic] 2 | { | ^ gbk.c:1:19: error: zero or negative size array ‘__gbk_from_ucs4_tab9’ 1 | static const char __gbk_from_ucs4_tab9[][2] = | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ; gcc -v (base) Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/11/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-suse-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,ada,go,d,jit --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none,amdgcn-amdhsa, --without-cuda-driver --enable-host-shared --enable-checking=release --disable-werror --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/11 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libvtv --enable-cet=auto --disable-libcc1 --enable-plugin --with-bugurl=https://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux' --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --enable-libphobos --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gcc-major-version-only --enable-linker-build-id --enable-linux-futex --enable-gnu-indirect-function --program-suffix=-11 --without-system-libunwind --enable-multilib --with-arch-32=x86-64 --with-tune=generic --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean --enable-link-mutex --build=x86_64-suse-linux --host=x86_64-suse-linux Thread model: posix Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd gcc version 11.1.1 20210625 [revision 62bbb113ae68a7e724255e17143520735bcb9ec9] (SUSE Linux) I believe no warning flag should result in an error.