diff --git a/SConscript b/SConscript
index 525c8e4..6707211 100644
--- a/SConscript
+++ b/SConscript
@@ -1239,9 +1239,10 @@ if env['COMPILER_FAMILY'] == 'gcc' or env['COMPILER_FAMILY'] == 'clang':
         # also GCC complains about some (compiler generated) fields in coroutines not having any linkage
         # also -Wdangling-reference seems to produce a lot of false positives
         # also -Wmaybe-uninitialized seems to produce false positives (or a bug in the standard library?))
+        # also -Warray-bounds because GCC kept complaining when I was constructing a string from a string_view
         # -Winit-list-lifetime triggers in vulkan.hpp even though it is disabled via pragma :/
         # -Wtautological-compare triggers in libfmt and doesn't seem too useful anyway
-        env.Append(CCFLAGS = ['-Wno-missing-field-initializers', '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'])
+        env.Append(CCFLAGS = ['-Wno-missing-field-initializers', '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized', '-Wno-array-bounds'])
         env.Append(CXXFLAGS = ['-Wno-subobject-linkage', '-Wno-dangling-reference', '-Wno-init-list-lifetime', '-Wno-tautological-compare'])
     else: # clang only
         # no-gnu-anonymous-struct - we don't care