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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Netdev Mailing List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 22:40:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070906214008.GA11224@hindley.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070904085331.GH5944@hindley.org.uk

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:25:55PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
 
> This is a GCC bug (regression, actually, as you've found out) -- no two
> ways about it. Although different from the kind Jeff mentioned couple days
> back -- that was about wising GCC up to false positives and /not/ emitting
> warnings. But here a genuine problem was not complained about, so this is
> more serious. Do you plan to open up a bug at gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ ?
> 

Yes, I have just narrowed down a test case, which is remarkably simple!

int 
main(int i)
{
  int err;
    
  if (i) {
    err = 1;
  }
  return err;
}

Mark

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-06 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709040340250.8504@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in >
2007-09-03 22:15 ` [PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug Satyam Sharma
2007-09-03 22:22   ` [PATCH -mm 2/2] 3c59x MAINTAINERS Satyam Sharma
2007-09-04  7:55     ` Steffen Klassert
2007-09-04  8:16   ` [PATCH -mm 1/2] 3c59x: Fix uninitialized variable bug Steffen Klassert
2007-09-04  8:39     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-04  8:53     ` Mark Hindley
2007-09-04  9:17       ` Steffen Klassert
2007-09-04  9:35       ` Mark Hindley
2007-09-04  9:39         ` Steffen Klassert
2007-09-06  9:55       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-06 21:40       ` Mark Hindley [this message]

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