------- Additional Comments From steven at gcc dot gnu dot org 2004-12-15 15:14 ------- methinks the bug is in this code: /* ??? This bit ought not 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. */ else { HOST_WIDE_INT len = list_length (elt_list); if (TREE_CODE (type) == ARRAY_TYPE) { tree nelts = array_type_nelts (type); if (!host_integerp (nelts, 1) || tree_low_cst (nelts, 1) + 1 != len) cleared = true; } else if (len != fields_length (type)) cleared = true; } We have this expr: objD.1485 = {{.sD.1468=(const charD.1 *) (charD.1 *) "m0"}, {}} The type of the constructor is an ARRAY_TYPE, nelts == 1, and len (the length of the constructor) is 2. So nelts+1 == 2, and we set cleared = true. But we ignore the fact that the second element of the constructor is empty, and that the first one is incomplete.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18241