Re: [PATCH 0/4] drop some "int x = x" hacks to silence gcc warnings

> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Am 3/21/2013 12:03, schrieb Jeff King:
>>> I was fooling around with clang and noticed that it complains about
>>> the "int x = x" construct under -Wall. That is IMHO a deficiency in
>>> clang, since the idiom has a well-defined use in silencing
>>> -Wuninitialized warnings.
>> 
>> IMO, that's a myth. The construct invokes undefined behavior at least
>> since C99, and the compilers are right to complain about it.
> 
> And I complained about this a couple months ago, as the compiler on