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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix an uninitialised variable warning in the 8250 driver
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:34:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081114163428.7b676742@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081114162038.23016.20581.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:20:38 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Fix an uninitialised variable warning in the 8250 driver:
> 
>   CC      drivers/serial/8250.o
> drivers/serial/8250.c: In function 'serial8250_shutdown':
> drivers/serial/8250.c:1612: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function

Current versions of gcc that I've tested get this all correct just fine
for x86 at least.

Do check that the BUG_ON() helper for whatever platform you are using
needs to correctly indicate that its BUG spewing path may not return
(__attibute((__noreturn__)). I seem to remember some of the architectures
are broken on that.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-14 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14 16:20 [PATCH] Fix an uninitialised variable warning in the 8250 driver David Howells
2008-11-14 16:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-11-14 16:51   ` David Howells
2008-11-14 19:01     ` Alan Cox

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