The compiler complains about `totsize' being possibly uninitialized in grub-core/disk/diskfilter.c, function grub_diskfilter_make_raid(). I get this error with gcc 4.5.3 on NetBSD, and also with gcc 4.6.2 on Debian GNU/Linux. I'm not familiar with that code. The attached patch fixes this by returning NULL when the argument `level' has an unexpected value. Grégoire gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -W -I../include -I../include -DGRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS=1 -DGRUB_MACHINE=I386_PC -DGRUB_TARGET_CPU_I386=1 -m32 -DGRUB_FILE=\"disk/diskfilter.c\" -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../include -I../include -Os -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -g -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -mno-mmx -mno-sse -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -m32 -fno-stack-protector -mno-stack-arg-probe -Werror -mrtd -mregparm=3 -ffreestanding -MT disk/diskfilter_module-diskfilter.o -MD -MP -MF disk/.deps-core/diskfilter_module-diskfilter.Tpo -c -o disk/diskfilter_module-diskfilter.o `test -f 'disk/diskfilter.c' || echo './'`disk/diskfilter.c cc1: warnings being treated as errors disk/diskfilter.c: In function 'grub_diskfilter_make_raid': disk/diskfilter.c:813:17: error: 'totsize' may be used uninitialized in this function gmake[3]: *** [disk/diskfilter_module-diskfilter.o] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/grub/grub-core' gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/grub/grub-core' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/grub' gmake: *** [all] Error 2