The following fixes spurious uninit warnings for zero-sized arrays. Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, applied.
Richard. 2017-12-08 Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de> PR middle-end/81782 * tree-ssa-uninit.c (warn_uninitialized_vars): Properly handle accesses outside of zero-sized vars. * gcc.dg/uninit-pr81782.c: New testcase. Index: gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c =================================================================== --- gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c (revision 255499) +++ gcc/tree-ssa-uninit.c (working copy) @@ -296,8 +296,8 @@ warn_uninitialized_vars (bool warn_possi variable. */ if (DECL_P (base) && ref.size != -1 - && ref.max_size == ref.size - && (ref.offset + ref.size <= 0 + && ((ref.max_size == ref.size + && ref.offset + ref.size <= 0) || (ref.offset >= 0 && DECL_SIZE (base) && TREE_CODE (DECL_SIZE (base)) == INTEGER_CST Index: gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-pr81782.c =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-pr81782.c (nonexistent) +++ gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/uninit-pr81782.c (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +/* { dg-do compile } */ +/* { dg-options "-Wmaybe-uninitialized" } */ + +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]; /* { dg-bogus "uninitialized" } */ + + return ret; +}