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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] Fix misleading gcc4 warning, idx may be used uninitialized
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:14:45 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 20 2005, domen@coderock.org wrote:
> From: Jesse Millan <jessem@cs.pdx.edu>
> 
> 
> 
> This warning is a false alarm.
> 
> This patch eliminates the warning that idx may be used uninitialized in
> the function bvec_alloc_bs().
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Millan <jessem@cs.pdx.edu>
> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
> 
> ---
>  bio.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: quilt/fs/bio.c
> ===================================================================
> --- quilt.orig/fs/bio.c
> +++ quilt/fs/bio.c
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ static inline struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc
>  {
>  	struct bio_vec *bvl;
>  	struct biovec_slab *bp;
> +	*idx = 0;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * see comment near bvec_array define!

Rejected, the gcc warning is (as you note) a false alarm. So fix gcc.

-- 
Jens Axboe