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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:31:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061109103135.GA3748@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031190955.GU27968@stusta.de>


* Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >...
> > we definitely do not want to hide these places. They both make the 
> > code less readable (why initialize it to some value if that value is 
> > never used) and they hide the problem from the GCC folks too.
> 
> What about cases where it's technically impossible for gcc to ever see 
> that a variable actually gets initialized?

we should mark them as such or even initialize them outright. But these 
are the exception.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-09 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-29 21:04 [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq Stefan Richter
2006-10-30  9:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31  1:04   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-31  9:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31  9:49       ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-31 11:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-10-31 19:09           ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-09 10:31             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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