On 22 June 2017 at 15:31, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > Because the -Wformat-overflow warnings are new in GCC 7, i.e. GCC got > better. See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html#c-family Oops, I meant -Wformat-truncation not -Wformat-overflow. I copy&pasted the wrong option.