Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>> When working on larger or intrusive changes like the monitor rework, the
>> number of warnings a normal build generates (here: x86-64 host, gcc 4.3)
>> is still too high. And sometimes these warnings are not just of cosmetic
>> nature, see (reposted) patch 3.
>>
>> This series reduces the number of warnings significantly, still not to
>> zero (someone would have to look into the NetWinder stuff), but almost:
>>
>> Warning summary for 2009-02-21 (changes since 2009-02-21-base)
>>  generic          0    (-1)
>>  softmmu          0   (-39)
>>    x86            0     (0)
>>    arm            0   (-10)
> 
> This means that after applying your patch there should be no more
> warning for the ARM target?

At least for softmmu, at least with my compiler (depending on the
precise version / distro patches, you may have different warnings
enabled by default): yes.

> 
> On my machine (x86_64, gcc 4.1.2), I still get these:
> 
>   CC    arm-softmmu/neon_helper.o
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c: In
> function ‘helper_neon_rshl_s8’:
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:469:
> warning: ‘vdest.v1’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:469:
> warning: ‘vdest.v2’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:469:
> warning: ‘vdest.v3’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:469:
> warning: ‘vdest.v4’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c: In
> function ‘helper_neon_rshl_s16’:
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:470:
> warning: ‘vdest.v1’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:470:
> warning: ‘vdest.v2’ is used uninitialized in this function
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c: In
> function ‘helper_neon_rshl_s32’:
> /home/ldesnogu/work/Emu/qemu/svn-ref/target-arm/neon_helper.c:471:
> warning: ‘vdest.v1’ is used uninitialized in this function

Has this been identified as a real issue or just compiler blindness (my
series contains one "fix" for such blindness, see cris patch)? I'm
currently a bit lost in those macros...

> 
> Note a patch has been proposed in the past (by Aurélien IIRC).

Do you have a reference at hand?

Jan