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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] XEN: enlighten, use uninitialized_var(cx)
On 08/25/2009 11:09 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
>> index e90540a..5ab75e2 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
>> @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static void xen_cpuid(unsigned int *ax, unsigned int *bx,
>>
>> static __init void xen_init_cpuid_mask(void)
>> {
>> - unsigned int ax, bx, cx, dx;
>> + unsigned int ax, bx, uninitialized_var(cx), dx;
>
> Please dont use uninitialized_var(), it's an unreliable facility: if
> this variable ever grows a real used-without-initialization bug in
> the future, the compiler warning is turned off permanently. It's
> rare but might happen. We are better off with initializing it to
> zero.
>

I hadn't seen this thread, but I pushed a patch to x86/urgent to do
exactly that while I was committing the Xen crash patch last night.

-hpa

--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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