On Tuesday 29 October 2013 11:23 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > Christian, All, > > On 2013-10-27 19:02 -0700, Christian Kujau spake thusly: >> On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 at 18:28, Christian Kujau wrote: >>> While doing "make oldconfig" on 3.12-rc7 with gcc-4.7.2 (Debian), the >>> following warning is printed: >>> >>> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o >>> In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2537:0: >>> /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c: In function >>> ‘get_symbol_str’: >>> /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c:586:18: warning: ‘jump’ may >>> be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] >>> /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c:547:19: note: ‘jump’ was >>> declared here >> >> Grrr, only after I sent this message I found this was reported in >> September already by Madhavan Srinivasan: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/19/24 >> >> Does anybody know the state of this fix? > My bad, somehow this slipped from my todo list.
> The solution was to properly comment that this was a gcc issue, in that > this is a spurious error, does not appear in previous gcc versions, and > has been fixed in later gcc versions. > I also notice this with gcc 4.8.1 (20131002) build. > Setting 'jump' to NULL may hide reall issues in case the code is changed > in the future, so it is not appropriate a fix. Hence why the previously- > submitted patches were not applied. > > I'll take this on me to properly fix this. Thanks for the heads up. > > Regards, > Yann E. MORIN. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
