Re: [PATCH] Fix an unitialized pointer in merge-recursive.c
On 8/16/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Indeed &mrtree is passed to merge_trees() that not always
> > seems to set the value, so on some paths mrtree could
> > return uninitialized.
> >
> > Spotted by a gcc 4.2.1 warning
>
> Are you sure that gcc is correctly seeing the codeflow?
>
> In merge(), mrtree is used only under index_only, and
> merge_trees() always sets *result under index_only.
>
Ok ;-)
Now two options:
- discard the patch
- change the title in 'silence a gcc bougus warning'