Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Staging:android: Initialise buffer and buffer_sizebefore used

From: Zhengwang Ruan
Date: Tue Mar 06 2012 - 23:58:27 EST





-------- Original Message --------
From: Arve HjÃnnevÃg
Sent: 2012å03æ06æ ææä 20æ01å58ç
To: Zhengwang Ruan
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Staging:android: Initialise buffer and buffer_size
before used
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Zhengwang Ruan<ruan.zhengwang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
GCC warns 'buffer' and 'buffer_size' are used with being uninitialized, and
'buffer' is used as returned value, and 'buffer_size' is initialized using
uninitialized_var to clear warning.
Why do you clear the warning on buffer_size with uninitialized_var()
but not on buffer?

struct binder_buffer *buffer;
size_t buffer_size;
struct rb_node *best_fit = NULL;

I see 'best_fit' is initialized by being directly assigned a NULL pointer, I think it should be better to initialize pointer in this way.

Neither variable is used before being initialized.

I got the following compiling warning against buffer ans buffer_size:

drivers/staging/android/binder.c:719:24: warning: âbufferâ may be used uninitialized in this function
drivers/staging/android/binder.c:720:9: warning: âbuffer_sizeâ may be used uninitialized in this function

Thanks,
-Zhengwang



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