https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77672
David Malcolm <dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |ASSIGNED Last reconfirmed| |2016-09-22 Assignee|unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org |dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from David Malcolm <dmalcolm at gcc dot gnu.org> --- To clarify: you want a substring_loc that uses the terminating nul character to use the location of the closing quote for the caret location, like this: v.c: In function āgā: v.c:10:15: warning: writing a terminating nul past the end of the destination [-Wformat-length=] sprintf (d, "%-s", "abc"); ^ I believe that can be done by tweaking cpp_interpret_string_1; am working on a fix.