From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] Fix gcc4 warning,
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:41:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505202341.49477.adobriyan@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428E3224.8030307@cs.pdx.edu>
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:53, Jesse Millan wrote:
> This patch eliminates the warning that is generated when passing an
> uninitialized variable to a function, and in that function it 'looks'
> like you may read the contents.
>
> In this case, the address of a local variable 'idx' is passed to the
> function bvec_alloc_bs(). Inside bvec_alloc_bs(), it is possible that
> no value will be assigned to idx, in which case the function immediately
> returns null and does not go on to read it. Human eyes can see that its
> safe.
I think this should go straight to http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-20 18:53 [KJ] [PATCH] Fix gcc4 warning, Jesse Millan
2005-05-20 19:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2005-05-22 9:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-05-23 1:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-05-24 4:52 ` Jesse Millan
2005-05-24 4:56 ` Jesse Millan
2005-05-25 6:09 ` Jesse Millan
2005-05-25 22:41 ` Jesse Millan
2005-05-26 21:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
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