https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109789
--- Comment #7 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- It also seems to depend on array-to-pointer decay from float[nframes] to float* across the function boundary, because if the loop using the size_t index is moved into the same function as the array initialization, the analyzer doesn't complain. In any case, the value of size_t size should be assumed to positive. Further reduced: void sink(float); void dsp_abs_max(float *buf, unsigned size) { sink(buf[size - 1]); } void export_audio(int nframes, float init, int count) { do { float tmp_l[nframes]; for (int i = 0; i < nframes; i++) tmp_l[i] = init; dsp_abs_max(tmp_l, nframes); } while (--count); } $ gcc -fanalyzer -Werror=analyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value -c a.c a.c: In function ‘dsp_abs_max’: a.c:4:3: error: use of uninitialized value ‘*buf_7(D) + _3’ [CWE-457] [-Werror=analyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value] 4 | sink(buf[size - 1]); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘export_audio’: events 1-5 | | 6 | void export_audio(int nframes, float init, int count) { | | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (1) entry to ‘export_audio’ | 7 | do { | 8 | float tmp_l[nframes]; | | ~~~~~ | | | | | (2) region created on stack here | 9 | for (int i = 0; i < nframes; i++) | | ~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (3) following ‘false’ branch (when ‘i >= nframes’)... | 10 | tmp_l[i] = init; | 11 | dsp_abs_max(tmp_l, nframes); | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (4) ...to here | | (5) calling ‘dsp_abs_max’ from ‘export_audio’ | +--> ‘dsp_abs_max’: events 6-7 | | 3 | void dsp_abs_max(float *buf, unsigned size) { | | ^~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (6) entry to ‘dsp_abs_max’ | 4 | sink(buf[size - 1]); | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (7) use of uninitialized value ‘*buf_7(D) + _3’ here | cc1: some warnings being treated as errors