Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:24:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:45:58PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Oh fsck! gcc is hosed. I just tried out this BS module:
> >...
> > And this is what I got!
> > 
> >   CC [M]  /home/rostedt/c/modules/warning.o
> > /home/rostedt/c/modules/warning.c: In function 'warn_here':
> > /home/rostedt/c/modules/warning.c:14: warning: 'x' is used uninitialized in this function
> >   Building modules, stage 2.
> > 
> > 
> > Why the fsck isn't the func but_not_here not getting a warning for the
> > first use of printk??  If I remove the if statement it gives me the
> > warning.  Hell, that if statement isn't even entered (g = 0).
> >...
> 
> I can't reproduce this, gcc 4.1 gives me:
> 
>   CC [M]  init/test.o
> init/test.c: In function 'warn_here':
> init/test.c:14: warning: 'x' is used uninitialized in this function
> init/test.c: In function 'but_not_here':
> init/test.c:23: warning: 'y' is used uninitialized in this function

Same with gcc 4.0.

I can reproduce your problem only with gcc 3.3 and gcc 3.4.

Can we please discuss issues in current gcc releases instead of gcc 
bashing ("Oh fsck! gcc is hosed.") based on issues no longer present in 
the latest two major releases of gcc?

TIA
Adrian

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