From: Andreas Schwab Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:22:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix an "variable might be used uninitialized" gcc warning Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111216235908.GA5858@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> Jonathan Nieder writes: > Ramsay Jones wrote: > >> CC builtin/checkout.o >> builtin/checkout.c: In function `cmd_checkout': >> builtin/checkout.c:160: warning: 'mode' might be used uninitialized \ >> in this function > [...] >> [Note that only 2 out of the 3 versions of gcc I use issues this >> warning] > > Which version of gcc is that? Is gcc getting more sane, so we won't > have to worry about this after a while, or is the false positive a > new regression that should be reported to them? The regression is that the function has been changed in a way that makes it impossible to infer the intended flow. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."