From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:56:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] drop some "int x = x" hacks to silence gcc warnings
Message-ID: <kif3ig$au5$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <kif2so$2ug$1@ger.gmane.org>

Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> 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

Actually on August 20th, 2012...

> HP-NonStop stumbles across this too (by emitting a warning)


Bye, Jojo