Re: what's in parisc-2.6.git

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 12:44:32PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> GCC head is really great at correctly noticing uninitialized uses of
> variables. I'm tempted to compile the kernel with head just to fix
> these. I just fixed 2 such cases in gdb.

I find it detects too many false positives.  For example ...

int a = 0, b;

for (...) {
	if (c) {
		a = c;
		b = f(c);
	}

	...

	if (a) {
		foo->a = a;
		foor->b = b;
	}
}

warns that b may be used uninitialised.

(reconstructed from memory ... I don't have the exact code to hand right
now)

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