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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, khushil.dep@help.basilica.co.uk,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106190402.GS3389@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106165844.399a1d07.lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>

On Fri, Jan 06 2006, Luiz Fernando Capitulino wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:48:11 +0100
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> 
> | > having assigned a value we know that gcc's warning is wrong, idx can
> | > never *actually* be used uninitialized.
> | 
> | Indeed, that's the whole point. For the original submitter, you are not
> | the first to submit this. See archives for basically the same thread as
> | this one...
> 
>  Al Viro got it: I just wanted to make gcc not complain. But
> 'obfuscate correct code' for it is wrong.

Yes I realize this is what you wanted to do, the warning annoys me to
(using 4.0.2 as well on one machine).

>  The code is right, the patch is bad. That's it.

Indeed :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 15:48 [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix Khushil Dep
2006-01-06 18:41 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 18:48   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-06 18:53     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 18:58     ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2006-01-06 19:04       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-06 19:05       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 19:33     ` Zan Lynx
2006-01-06 19:56       ` Al Viro
2006-01-07 12:22         ` Peter Osterlund
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 15:07 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2006-01-06 15:28 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-06 15:39 ` Al Viro
2006-01-06 22:43   ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-01-06 22:52     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-06 23:13       ` Daniel Barkalow

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