From: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Move uninitialized_var() macro from ubi_uboot.h to compiler.h
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:58:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090901195814.GA31988@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090901185232.GC3650@pc-ras4041.res.insa>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:52:33PM +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
[...]
> > > > +/* compiler options */
> > > > +#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x
> > >
> > > Please excuse my ignorance, but where and what for is such a
> > > definition useful?
> >
> > It's used to avoid GCC warnings, i.e. when GCC isn't smart enough
> > to see that some variable isn't actually used uninitialized.
> >
> > ~/linux-2.6$ git grep uninitialized_var drivers/ | wc -l
> > 94
>
> You seem to be grepping the linux source tree.
Yes, which is a great source of best practices.
Thanks,
--
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru at gmail.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-01 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 16:58 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Move uninitialized_var() macro from ubi_uboot.h to compiler.h Anton Vorontsov
2009-09-01 18:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-09-01 18:25 ` Anton Vorontsov
2009-09-01 18:52 ` Albin Tonnerre
2009-09-01 19:58 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2009-09-02 3:13 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-09-01 19:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-09-01 22:17 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] fsl: sys_eeprom: Fix 'may be used uninitialized' warning Anton Vorontsov
2009-09-01 22:43 ` Timur Tabi
2009-09-02 1:52 ` Kumar Gala
2009-09-04 20:16 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Move uninitialized_var() macro from ubi_uboot.h to compiler.h Wolfgang Denk
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