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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:25:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030222543.GN7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130710531.32734.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:15:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> gcc is a *LOT* smarter than you give it credit for. It will not warn for
> cases where it isn't able to tell how foo is used passed with &foo. It
> will warn for cases where it can

static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) int bar(int n, int *idx)
{
        if (n != 1) 
                return 0; 
        *idx = 1;
        return 1;  
}
void baz(int *v, int n)
{
        int idx;
        int p = bar(n, &idx);
        if (__builtin_expect(!p, 0))
                return; 
        *v |= idx;
}

and try gcc -Wall on that.  Watch it warn about idx being possibly
uninitialized.  Replace __builtin_expect(!p, 0) with !p and see
the warning go away.  That, BTW, is a trimmed-down source of bogus
warning in bio.c.  And a lot of its analogs all over the tree.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28  7:21 2.6.14 assorted warnings Keith Owens
2005-10-28  7:28 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-28  7:30 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-28  8:07   ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-10-28  8:29     ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-29  5:59       ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-29  6:03         ` Al Viro
2005-10-28  8:10   ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-30 22:15   ` Alan Cox
2005-10-30 22:25     ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-10-30 22:32       ` Al Viro
2005-10-30 22:29         ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-10-31  0:53     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-31  0:57       ` Al Viro

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