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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: asmwarrior <asmwarrior@gmail.com>
Cc: GDB Development <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: gcc warning with "some variable may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]" when building under msys
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9aa0ec3d6356d1e0c746697161918576@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46b498a8-ba44-3f67-783d-85cd5ac8f0c9@gmail.com>

On 2018-10-04 02:28, asmwarrior wrote:
> Hi, when building gdb git head(which is
> 875e539851bb2702f3292f819e220545a8776242 as 2018-10-04) under msys+gcc
> 5.4, I see such warning:
> 
>   CXX    infrun.o
> In file included from ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/inferior.h:49:0,
>                  from ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:26:
> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/progspace.h: In function 'void
> handle_vfork_child_exec_or_exit(int)':
> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/progspace.h:285:47: warning: '*((void*)(&
> maybe_restore_inferior)+16).scoped_restore_current_program_space::m_saved_pspace'
> may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>    { set_current_program_space (m_saved_pspace); }
>                                                ^
> ../../binutils-gdb/gdb/infrun.c:931:6: note: '*((void*)(&
> maybe_restore_inferior)+16).scoped_restore_current_program_space::m_saved_pspace'
> was declared here
>       maybe_restore_inferior;
>       ^
>   CXX    inline-frame.o
> 
> Hope you devs can fix this. Thanks.
> 
> Asmwarrior

I also see this from time to time.  I think it is a false positive, but 
I may be wrong.  Do you see a code path that could actually be 
problematic?

Simon


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-04 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-04  6:28 asmwarrior
2018-10-04 12:01 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2018-10-04 12:40   ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-05  5:08     ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-09 10:34       ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-09 19:34         ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-09 19:54           ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-09 20:01             ` Pedro Alves
2018-10-09 20:04             ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-04 12:41   ` Tom Tromey

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