C++ GCC4.4 warning: array subscript is above array bounds

Question

I recently upgraded to GCC 4.4 (MinGW TDM build) and now the follow code produces these warning:

In member function 'void Console::print(const std::string&)':

warning: array subscript is above array bounds

Here's the code:

void Console::print( const std::string& str ) {
     std::string newLine( str );
     if( newLine.size() > MAX_LINE_LENGTH ) {
      sf::Uint32 stringSize = newLine.size();
      for( sf::Uint32 insertPos = MAX_LINE_LENGTH;
        insertPos < stringSize; insertPos += MAX_LINE_LENGTH ) {
       newLine.insert( insertPos, "\n" );
      }
     }

     StringList tokens;
     boost::split( tokens, newLine, boost::is_any_of("\n") );

     for( StringList::iterator it = tokens.begin();
       it != tokens.end(); ++it ) {
      addLine( *it );
     }
    }

Any ideas?

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It is the optimizations that are doing it...

Also it appears to be this line which is causing it:

boost::split( tokens, newLine, boost::is_any_of("\n") );

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Ah yes, I found it, it is the argument for boost::is_any_of(), by wrapping it in a string() constructor the warning goes away, thank you all for your help :)

boost::split( tokens, newLine, boost::is_any_of( string( "\n" ) ) );

Answer 1

I notice your loop here is altering the length of the string, but not updating the loop termination condition. Could this be the source of your issue?

   sf::Uint32 stringSize = newLine.size();
   for( sf::Uint32 insertPos = MAX_LINE_LENGTH;
      insertPos < stringSize; insertPos += MAX_LINE_LENGTH ) 
   {
      newLine.insert( insertPos, "\n" );
      // You were probably wanting to put this here..
      insertPos++;
      stringSize++;
   }

Answer 2

Could have something to do with one or more of these GCC bugs:

GCC bugzilla search results for "Warning: array subscript is above array bounds"

Not all of them are valid, but there are some fixed ones if you search around, too:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37861

So I'm pretty sure there's something going on there. Based on the comments, I'd try compiling without optimisation and see if it goes away.

I got a spurious bounds warning using one of the standard algorithms (std::remove, I think) and passing iterator parameters:

myarray, 
myarray + sizeof(myarray)/sizeof(*myarray)

which I'm pretty sure are in bounds. It was only in toy code, though, so I just bodged around it. If GCC really is throwing dodgy warnings you'll just have to inspect your code extra-carefully until it's fixed.

Answer 3

Got the same error. As a workaround I replaced

is_any_of(" ")

with

is_from_range(' ', ' ')

which might also be slightly more efficient.