http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54691
--- Comment #10 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-10-15 07:05:43 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > (In reply to comment #8) > > > libcpp will read in advance beyond the end of buffer in > > some cases, even without SSE optimization. > > I'd call this a bug. No it is not a bug. Even if the read happens, since a null character is found, the behavior does not change. Also it is never on an unaligned read so we can never hit a page fault due to unmapped pages.