https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105343
--- Comment #3 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- categorize_ctor_elements computes (gdb) p num_nonzero_elements $3 = 1000 (gdb) p num_unique_nonzero_elements $4 = 1000 (gdb) p num_ctor_elements $5 = 1000 (gdb) p complete_p $6 = false so it fails to compute the required CTOR elements (num_ctor_elements lacks the missing parts), falling into else if (!complete_p) /* If the constructor isn't complete, clear the whole object beforehand, unless CONSTRUCTOR_NO_CLEARING is set on it. ??? This ought not to be needed. For any element not present in the initializer, we should simply set them to zero. Except we'd need to *find* the elements that are not present, and that requires trickery to avoid quadratic compile-time behavior in large cases or excessive memory use in small cases. */ cleared = !CONSTRUCTOR_NO_CLEARING (ctor);