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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:09:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031190955.GU27968@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031111502.GA21450@elte.hu>

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>...
> we definitely do not want to hide these places. They both make the code 
> less readable (why initialize it to some value if that value is never 
> used) and they hide the problem from the GCC folks too.

What about cases where it's technically impossible for gcc to ever see 
that a variable actually gets initialized?

> 	Ingo

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-29 21:04 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq Stefan Richter
2006-10-30  9:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-31  9:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31  9:49       ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-31 11:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31 19:09           ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-11-09 10:31             ` Ingo Molnar

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