Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Shut up compiler warning

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> wrote:

> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> util/trace-event-parse.c: In function ‘parse_ftrace_printk’:
> util/trace-event-parse.c:289: warning: ‘fmt’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c
> index 4b61b49..0b8a01b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c
> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ void parse_ftrace_printk(char *file, unsigned int size __unused)
>  	char *line;
>  	char *next = NULL;
>  	char *addr_str;
> -	char *fmt;
> +	char *fmt = NULL;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	line = strtok_r(file, "\n", &next);

Actually, this might be a real bug that GCC pointed out: what makes sure 
that strtok_r() does not return a NULL (no more tokens) and hence fmt 
remains NULL (crashing the rest of the parser)?

	Ingo