From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:16:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix an unitialized pointer in merge-recursive.c
Message-ID: <87ps1nwrfr.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vodh7khuo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

* Junio C. Hamano:

> Third option.  Change the assignment from "mrtree = NULL" to
> "mrtree = mtree".  It is a standard idiom to work around stupid
> gcc warnings.

Is it?  It's also undefined according to the C standard.  In other
words, the compiler may assume that this particular declaration is
never reached.