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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: silence GCC warning
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 11:03:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121001100321.GB4360@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349000155.1553.27.camel@x61.thuisdomein>

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:15:55PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Building regmap.o triggers this GCC warning:
>     drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function ‘regmap_raw_read’:
>     drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:1172:6: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> 
> It seems 'ret' should always be set when this function returns. See, the
> else-branch can leave 'ret' uninitialized only if 'val_count' is zero.
> But if 'val_count' is zero regmap_volatile_range() will return true.
> That implies that 'ret' will be set in the if-branch. ('val_count' could
> be zero if 'val_len' is, for example, zero. That would be useless input,
> however.)
> 
> Anyhow, initializing 'ret' to -EINVAL silences GCC and is harmless.

Have you reported this bug in GCC?  Their flow analyis just seems to
keep on getting worse and worse.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-01 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-30 10:15 [PATCH] regmap: silence GCC warning Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 10:03 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-10-01 10:16   ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 10:19     ` Mark Brown
2012-10-01 10:32       ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 11:39         ` Mark Brown
2012-10-01 19:08           ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-01 19:11             ` Mark Brown
2012-10-03  0:11   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-10-03  7:23     ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-03 11:06       ` Mark Brown
2012-10-05 22:20       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-10-06  8:53         ` Mark Brown
2012-10-06  9:57           ` Paul Bolle
2012-10-08  1:14             ` Mark Brown
2012-10-08 20:06               ` [PATCH v2] " Paul Bolle
2012-10-12  6:26                 ` Mark Brown

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