Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix.

Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2006-01-06T18:59:35Z

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.

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

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Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino