Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:57811 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbaABWOg (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2014 17:14:36 -0500 Message-ID: <52C5E4C9.7030500@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20140102_231452_887698_4656F89F) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:14:33 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Rientjes CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on compiler warning References: <52C21CE3.3020402@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/02/2014 03:56 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Larry Finger wrote: > >> + /scratch/kisskb/src/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c: warning: 'val_addr' >> may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]: => 178:21 >> >> This warning does not show up on any of my compilers, and it should not as the >> initialization and usage of that variable both take place in conditional >> branches that are testing exactly the same pointer. >> > > You may not be compiling this file depending on your .config or you may > have a different setting for CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE. I am definitely building this driver in my configuration. Variable CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE was not set, but changing it to "y" did not change the result. Thanks, Larry