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* [Query]: Regmap v3.8: Compilation Warning: regmap_read_debugfs()
@ 2013-02-20  7:53 Viresh Kumar
  2013-02-20 12:14 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Viresh Kumar @ 2013-02-20  7:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mark Brown; +Cc: Lists linaro-kernel, Linux Kernel Mailing List

Hi Mark,

I am getting compilation warning while compiling v3.8

commit 19f949f52599ba7c3f67a5897ac6be14bfcb1200
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 18 15:58:34 2013 -0800

    Linux 3.8



Warning:

CC      drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.o
drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c: In function ‘regmap_read_debugfs’:
drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c:180:9: warning: ‘ret’ may be used
uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]


I am unable to understand why this warning is coming and that too on
line 180 (as that doesn't use this variable). I can't see how this variable is
used uninitialized.

Toolchain i used:

arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (crosstool-NG
linaro-1.13.1-4.7-2012.12-20121214 - Linaro GCC 2012.12) 4.7.3
20121205 (prerelease)

--
viresh

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* Re: [Query]: Regmap v3.8: Compilation Warning: regmap_read_debugfs()
  2013-02-20  7:53 [Query]: Regmap v3.8: Compilation Warning: regmap_read_debugfs() Viresh Kumar
@ 2013-02-20 12:14 ` Mark Brown
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark Brown @ 2013-02-20 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Viresh Kumar; +Cc: Lists linaro-kernel, Linux Kernel Mailing List

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:23:09PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> I am unable to understand why this warning is coming and that too on
> line 180 (as that doesn't use this variable). I can't see how this variable is
> used uninitialized.

The compiler isn't as smart about code flow analysis as it thinks it is,
the code is safe.  There's a patch going to Linus this merge window
which shuts up the warning.

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