Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423804AbWJaTJ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:09:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423466AbWJaTJ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:09:57 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:4112 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1423804AbWJaTJ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:09:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:09:55 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq Message-ID: <20061031190955.GU27968@stusta.de> References: <20061030090231.GA27146@elte.hu> <20061030170445.1dedce1e.akpm@osdl.org> <1162287457.15286.186.camel@earth> <20061031014914.9af0dde9.akpm@osdl.org> <20061031111502.GA21450@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061031111502.GA21450@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 899 Lines: 26 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >... > we definitely do not want to hide these places. They both make the code > less readable (why initialize it to some value if that value is never > used) and they hide the problem from the GCC folks too. What about cases where it's technically impossible for gcc to ever see that a variable actually gets initialized? > Ingo cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/