From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule.c: Squelch a "use before assignment" warning
Message-ID: <7vws1jl0xp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <c5plt6-5me.ln1@burns.bruehl.pontohonk.de>

Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek@gmx.de> writes:

> Why is the compiler not complaining about the fake initalization? For 
> initialization a value is used that is not initialized.

That is a fairly well established idiom to tell gcc "you may mistakenly
think it isn't, but this is used".