Comment Comment by balnaphone Perhaps that is inexcusable. GNU gcc version 13.2.0 (with -O2, as documented) does report a problem. $ cat tst.c int main () { int x[10]; return *(x+20); } $ gcc -Wall -O2 tst.c tst.c: In function ‘main’: tst.c:3:10: warning: array subscript 20 is outside array bounds of ‘int[10]’ [-Warray-bounds=] 3 | return *(x+20); | ^~~~~~~ tst.c:2:7: note: at offset 80 into object ‘x’ of size 40 2 | int x[10]; | ^ parent balnaphone 2 years ago