RE: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.

Khushil Dep
2006-01-06T15:45:13Z

I wonder however whether this is not correct? I was always taught to
initialise variables so there is no doubt as to their starting value?

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Khushil Dep

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Al Viro
Sent: 06 January 2006 15:40
To: Luiz Fernando Capitulino
Cc: akpm; axboe@suse.de; lkml
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:07:29PM -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino
wrote:
>
> Fixes the following gcc 4.0.2 warning:
>
> fs/bio.c: In function 'bio_alloc_bioset':
> fs/bio.c:167: warning: 'idx' may be used uninitialized in this
function

NAK. There is nothing to fix except for broken logics in gcc.
Please, do not obfuscate correct code just to make gcc to shut up.
Especially for this call of warnings; gcc4 *blows* in that area.
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