On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:05 AM Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On the clang front, I am still seeing the following warning turned error
> for arm64 allmodconfig at least:
>
> drivers/gpu/host1x/dev.c:520:6: error: variable 'syncpt_irq' is
> uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
> if (syncpt_irq < 0)
> ^~~~~~~~~~
Hmm. I do my arm64 allmodconfig builds with gcc, and I'm surprised
that gcc doesn't warn about this.
That syncpt_irq thing isn't written to anywhere, so that's pretty egregious.
We use -Wno-maybe-uninitialized because gcc gets it so wrong, but
that's different from the "-Wuninitialized" thing (without the
"maybe").
I've seen gcc mess this up when there is one single assignment,
because then the SSA format makes it *so* easy to just use that
assignment out-of-order (or unconditionally), but this case looks
unusually clear-cut.
So the fact that gcc doesn't warn about it is outright odd.
> If that does not come to you through other means before -rc4, could you
> just apply it directly so that I can stop applying it to our CI? :)
Bah. I took it now, there's no excuse for that thing.
Do we have any gcc people around that could explain why gcc failed so
miserably at this trivial case?
Linus
