Re: [PATCH] hwrng: stm32 - fix build warning

Sudip Mukherjee
2016-05-25T06:35:27Z

On Tuesday 24 May 2016 02:05 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2016 6:14:08 PM CEST Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> We have been getting build warning about:
>> drivers/char/hw_random/stm32-rng.c: In function 'stm32_rng_read':
>> drivers/char/hw_random/stm32-rng.c:82:19: warning: 'sr' may be used
>> uninitialized in this function
>>
>> On checking the code it turns out that sr can never be used
>> uninitialized as sr is getting initialized in the while loop and while
>> loop will always execute as the minimum value of max can be 32.
>> So just initialize sr to 0 while declaring it to silence the compiler.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
>> ---
>
> I notice that you are using a really old compiler. While this warning
> seems to be valid in the sense that the compiler should figure out that
> the variable might be used uninitialized, please update your toolchain
> before reporting other such problems, as gcc-4.6 had a lot more false
> positives that newer ones (5.x or 6.x) have.

yes, i need to upgrade gcc in my travis bot. But in my local system I am
having gcc-4.8.4 and there also I am having this error and i am sure
4.8.4 is still being used by many people.

Regards
Sudip