Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.

Jens Axboe
2006-01-06T19:02:20Z

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 :-)

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Jens Axboe