Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:04:02 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bio: gcc warning fix. |
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On Fri, Jan 06 2006, Luiz Fernando Capitulino wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:48:11 +0100 > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > | > having assigned a value we know that gcc's warning is wrong, idx can > | > never *actually* be used uninitialized. > | > | Indeed, that's the whole point. For the original submitter, you are not > | the first to submit this. See archives for basically the same thread as > | this one... > > Al Viro got it: I just wanted to make gcc not complain. But > 'obfuscate correct code' for it is wrong.
Yes I realize this is what you wanted to do, the warning annoys me to (using 4.0.2 as well on one machine).
> The code is right, the patch is bad. That's it.
Indeed :-)
-- Jens Axboe
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