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Date:   Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:12:07 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd/uncore: fix error codes in amd_uncore_init()
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 09:30:46AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Ugh, why on Earth didn't GCC warn about this? The bad pattern is pretty 
> simple & obvious once pointed out ... compilers should have no trouble 
> realizing that 'ret' is returned uninitialized in some of these control 
> paths. Yet not a peep from the compiler ...

We disabled that warning years ago (5?) because GCC had too many false
positives.

regards,
dan carpenter