From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
stephen@networkplumber.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip, route: fix minor compile warning
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:53:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <566EE5F0.9030504@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151214155104.GE6555@orbit.nwl.cc>
On 12/14/2015 04:51 PM, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> Seems like gcc (4.8.3) doesn't catch this false positive, triggering
>> after 0f7543322c5f ("route: ignore RTAX_HOPLIMIT of value -1"):
>>
>> iproute.c: In function 'print_route':
>> iproute.c:301:12: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>> features &= ~RTAX_FEATURE_ECN;
>> ^
>> iproute.c:575:10: note: 'val' was declared here
>> __u32 val;
>> ^
>> So just shut it up by initializing to 0.
>
> Hmm. Interestingly, my patch shouldn't have changed anything relevant
> for gcc's decision. OTOH, I don't see a warning using gcc-4.9.3.
If I revert it, the warning is gone for me ;) perhaps some heuristic issue
with that gcc version.
Cheers,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-14 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-14 15:34 [PATCH iproute2] ip, route: fix minor compile warning Daniel Borkmann
2015-12-14 15:51 ` Phil Sutter
2015-12-14 15:53 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-12-18 1:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-18 9:18 ` Daniel Borkmann
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