From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Cc: James Lamanna <jlamanna@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: zlib_inflate "r.base" uninitialized compile warnings
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 20:43:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051225204313.GD27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051225203531.GN18040@outflux.net>
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:35:32PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 12:08:00PM -0800, James Lamanna wrote:
> > What version of gcc are you using?
>
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)
>
> > Looks like a gcc bug that was fixed?
>
> I guess it's been introduced. ;)
4.0.x is very bad in that area - it's crying "wolf" a _lot_ and genuine
cases of uninitialized variables being used are drowning in the noise;
compared to 3.x it's a serious regression.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-25 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-25 20:08 [PATCH] lib: zlib_inflate "r.base" uninitialized compile warnings James Lamanna
2005-12-25 20:35 ` Kees Cook
2005-12-25 20:43 ` Al Viro [this message]
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2005-12-25 18:07 Kees Cook
2005-12-25 18:34 ` Al Viro
2005-12-25 20:39 ` Kees Cook
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