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From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] drivers/net/ixgbe: Fix uninitialized
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:45:40 +0000
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On 10/03/2016 13:42, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 02/25/2016 08:48 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Silence a compiler warning that this variable may be used uninitialized.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
[..]
>
> The patch looks ok as such, but then again warning looks like a false
> positive to me: assignment and dereferencing depend on the same value of
> eop, which cannot change between the two.

In two minds about this. It is a logical impossibility, but these days 
optimising compilers are getting very aggressive. For instance GCC has a 
delightfully-named -fdelete-null-pointer-checks option, which caused 
security holes..

..Remy