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From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 09:01:01AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 08:22:36AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:11:58 +0100 Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 05:31:42PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > > Ah great, that is indeed cleaner, thank you for letting me know!  
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I'm not sure why gcc didn't find that. Strangely, the 0-day bot
> > > seems to have only picked up on it with clang, not gcc.
> > 
> > May be similar to: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/25/1092
> > 
> > Recent GCC is so bad at catching uninitialized vars I was considering
> > build testing with GCC8 :/
> 
> It is even simpler than that, the warning was straight up disabled in
> commit 78a5255ffb6a ("Stop the ad-hoc games with -Wno-maybe-initialized").

Great, so now rather than getting false positive warnings, we now
get buggy code. That sounds like a good improvement to me.

Not.

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