Re: [PATCH -tip] drivers/serial/8250.c: 'i' may be useduninitialized

[Alan Cox]

> it cannot be wrapped like that via __foo style notation (which can be 
> used for section tricks), and uninitialized_var() is the accepted 

Any particular reason that

#define __used		__attribute__((used))

doesn't work ?

> > (Besides which last time I checked current gcc could figure that one 
> > out)
> 
> that would indeed moot the patch.

I'll re-check that before rejecting the patch definitively just to be
sure.

Alan
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