From: Stefan Richter Subject: New compiler warning in 2.6.34-rc1: 'start_ext.ee_block' may be used uninitialized Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:42:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4B9E475F.1010302@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Akira Fujita Return-path: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:36028 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965028Ab0COOms (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:42:48 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I saw the following scroll by during kernel compilation: fs/ext4/move_extent.c: In function 'mext_leaf_block': fs/ext4/move_extent.c:478: warning: 'start_ext.ee_block' may be used uninitialized in this function Is it real? It seems that the initial start_ext.ee_len = 0 guards against accidental use of an uninitialized start_ext.ee_block, but maybe I missed something. The message is from gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4 here. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --== -==== http://arcgraph.de/sr/