From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15051 invoked by alias); 14 May 2002 20:27:29 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15030 invoked from network); 14 May 2002 20:27:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 May 2002 20:27:24 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331623E60; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:27:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CE17335.30205@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:27:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Blandy Cc: Daniel Berlin , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: macrotab.c -Werror References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00557.txt.bz2 > I don't actually know how many unnecessary initializations there are > in GDB to silence the compiler, but it's my impression that the > compiler's false positive rate for `var might be used uninitialized' > warnings is low enough that it's still a useful sanity check. See http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint_13.html#SEC104 When fixing the original warnings (few were present) a significant number of those really were bugs. Look for Wuninitialized in the ChangeLogs. enjoy, Andrew