On 08/21/2010 10:43 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * H. J. Lu: > >> Sometime I have to do >> >> int x = 0; >> >> to silence gcc from uninitialized warnings when I know it is >> unnecessary. > > I guess the official idiom is > > int x = x; > > and it is somewhat used in the GNU project although it is not > portable.
Ewww, yuck. I think this'll get a read from uninitialized message from Valgrind. It's undefined behaviour too. Andrew.