On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 6:22 PM <james.hillia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: James Hilliard <james.hillia...@gmail.com>
>
> Fixes error: ‘st.st_mode’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> ---
> libbacktrace/elf.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libbacktrace/elf.c b/libbacktrace/elf.c
> index f3988ec02a0..714bfec965d 100644
> --- a/libbacktrace/elf.c
> +++ b/libbacktrace/elf.c
> @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ elf_syminfo (struct backtrace_state *state, uintptr_t
> addr,
> static int
> elf_is_symlink (const char *filename)
> {
> - struct stat st;
> + struct stat st={0};
>
> if (lstat (filename, &st) < 0)
> return 0;
I can't see why that is needed. The variable is initialized right
there on the next non-blank line. If the compiler is giving a
warning, then we need to fix the compiler.
Ian
