Re: [warnings] [2/8] fix uninitialized quot in drivers/serial/core.c

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:52:59AM -0800, wli@holomorphy.com wrote:
>> Give quot a default value so it's initialized. rmk, this is yours
>> to ack.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:19:13AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Why can't we get this obvious compiler bug fixed?  I'd rather have
> the compiler bug fixed rather than trying to work around the bogus
> warning.

I'll start talking with rth and drow. I'm not 100% incompetent in
luserspace, but gcc is a world unto itself (and some damn dirty
code IMHO).


On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:19:13AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> It's obvious that the loop:
> 	for (try = 0; try < 3; try++)
> is going to be executed at least once, which will initialise quot.
> As for the second hunk, its correct in so far as it'll catch the case
> where we can't even do 9600 baud.  However, I think we should just
> bound the lowest baud rate such that we can always do 9600 baud (and
> therefore this function will never return zero.)

This is a compiler bug; the rest will follow from that. Also, the 
sub-9600 baud case of the second hunk can be handled independently
from the first hunk. I'll break this out into its second hunk if it's
worth sending by itself, as you see fit.

Before any of this happens, I'll try it out on more modern gcc's.


Bill