GCC 13 gives a false positive on tixGrSel.c in Perl/Tk 804.036:
cc -c -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I. -Ibitmaps -I/usr/include/freetype2 -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -DVERSION=\"804.036\" -DXS_VERSION=\"804.036\" -fPIC "-I/home/nathan/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.41.2/lib/5.41.2/x86_64-linux/CORE" tixGrSel.c
In function ‘Tix_GrMergeSelection’,
inlined from ‘Tix_GrSelModify’ at tixGrSel.c:377:2:
tixGrSel.c:233:5: warning: ‘Tix_GrAddChangedRect’ accessing 16 bytes in a region of size 8 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
233 | Tix_GrAddChangedRect(wPtr, sbPtr->range, 0);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tixGrSel.c:233:5: note: referencing argument 2 of type ‘int[2][2]’
In file included from tixGrSel.c:19:
tixGrid.h: In function ‘Tix_GrSelModify’:
tixGrid.h:388:25: note: in a call to function ‘Tix_GrAddChangedRect’
388 | EXTERN void Tix_GrAddChangedRect _ANSI_ARGS_((
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tix_GrMergeSelection() calls Tix_GrAddChangedRect with sbPtr->range which is of type int[2][2]. The function Tix_GrAddChangedRect() takes a parameter of type int[2][2]. These types seem to both be the same array of arrays, having a total length of 16, but apparently, the type is decaying to int(*)[2] somewhere, causing GCC to think the parameter is only 8 bytes instead of 16. sizeof(int) is 4 bytes, I think. GCC 11 gives -Wstringop-overflow when no string op is used links to GCC 11 bug report 101854 in a similar situation.
GCC 13 gives a false positive on tixGrSel.c in Perl/Tk 804.036:
Tix_GrMergeSelection()
calls Tix_GrAddChangedRect withsbPtr->range
which is of typeint[2][2]
. The functionTix_GrAddChangedRect()
takes a parameter of typeint[2][2]
. These types seem to both be the same array of arrays, having a total length of 16, but apparently, the type is decaying toint(*)[2]
somewhere, causing GCC to think the parameter is only 8 bytes instead of 16.sizeof(int)
is 4 bytes, I think. GCC 11 gives -Wstringop-overflow when no string op is used links to GCC 11 bug report 101854 in a similar situation.Turns out that -Wstringop-overflow is broken. Gcc bug 88443 has the entire list of
-Wstringop-overflow
bugs.I am using Perl 5.41.2, installed with Perlbrew, inside the openSUSE Tumbleweed distro in WSL2.
Both the CPAN version of Perl/Tk and the latest GitHub version have the same warning.
VERSIONS
Perl 5.41.2 (installed from source with Perlbrew) GCC 13.3.0 (official Tumbleweed package) GLIBC 2.39 (official Tumbleweed package) openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240725-0 (Last month's snapshot) perl-Tk version: 804.036-18-gf0bb386b WSL2 version:
perl -V
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