From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix maybe-uninitialized warnings found by gcc 9 -flto
Message-ID: <xmqqimq6plof.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <8d90d803-8a4b-2656-550d-ccee5156b643@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

> The loop count is either 1 or argv[1] interpreted as a number, i.e. it could
> be very high.  Its body consists of an index load and writing a number to a
> file, though -- a strlen() call on the name of that file should go unnoticed
> amid that activity.  (I didn't measure it, though.)

Yup, I didn't either but we reasoned along the same line.