From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Stephane Ouellette <ouellettes@videotron.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compile warning because of an uninitialized variable
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:59:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060519035932.GA30894@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446D4045.9090304@videotron.ca>
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 11:49:25PM -0400, Stephane Ouellette wrote:
> Folks,
>
> gcc generates a warning because of an uninitialized variable in
> arch/i386/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c.
> The variable "cpu_freq" is initialized by a call to cpuid(). The following
> patch fixes the warning.
This is a gcc bug. The variable is passed by reference
to a function where the assignment is made.
The second time it's used, if that > 80860002 condition
is satisfied, we *must* have satisfied the previous
check where we made the assignment, as 'max' hasn't changed
between the two checks.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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2006-05-19 3:49 [PATCH] Compile warning because of an uninitialized variable Stephane Ouellette
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