"Philip Oakley" <philipoak...@iee.org> writes: > int saved_namelen = saved_namelen; /* compiler workaround */ > > Which then becomes an MSVC compile warning C4700: uninitialized local > variable. > > I'm wondering what was the compiler workaround being referred to? i.e. why > does it need that tweak? There's no mention of the reason in the commit > message.
That was a fairly well-known workaround for GCC that issues a false warning that variable is used before initialized. I thought we stopped using it several years ago in new code after doing a bulk sanitizing (I think the new recommended workaround was to initialise such a variable to the nil value like '0' for integers). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
