Re: [PATCH] Trace: initialize variable to clear warning

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 17:40 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:16:31 EST, Steven Rostedt said:
> 
> > This is a bug in gcc that's fixed in 4.6 and beyond. I don't want to
> > remove this warning because it will hide a real bug if page2 really does
> > become uninitialized. If 4.6 gives a warning here, then I'll fix it.
> 
> > > -	void *page2;
> > > +	void *uninitialized_var(page2);
> 
> How would you feel about this?
> 
> -	void *page2;
> +	void *page2; /* gcc 4.5 bug causes incorrect "uninitialized" warning */
> 
> or something similar?

/* if you get a warning here, upgrade your gcc to 4.6 */


-- Steve



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