On 14-02-19 03:51 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 15:00 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: >> Every couple of months, someone sends a patch to fix: >> >> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'serial_unlink_irq_chain': >> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:1712:2: warning: 'i' may be used >> uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] >> >> and they in turn get a NACK for their efforts, and are told that >> their compiler is broken. This has been going on since at least >> the year 2008: https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/24/433 >> >> Lets add a comment, so that subsequent patches don't get as far as >> the maintainers or the mailing lists. > > Are people still using gcc variants that get this wrong ?
It seems that gcc 4.6.3 gets it wrong, and it isn't _that_ old. Paul. -- $ mips-linux-gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=mips-linux-gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/paul/tc/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/mips-linux/bin/../libexec/gcc/mips-linux/4.6.3/lto-wrapper Target: mips-linux Configured with: /home/tony/buildall/src/gcc/configure --target=mips-linux --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-targets=all --prefix=/opt/cross/gcc-4.6.3-nolibc/mips-linux/ --enable-languages=c --with-newlib --without-headers --enable-sjlj-exceptions --with-system-libunwind --disable-nls --disable-threads --disable-shared --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-libgomp --disable-decimal-float --enable-checking=release --with-mpfr=/home/tony/buildall/src/sys-x86_64 --with-gmp=/home/tony/buildall/src/sys-x86_64 --disable-bootstrap --disable-libquadmath Thread model: single gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC) $ make allmodconfig > /dev/null $ make drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.o > /dev/null drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c: In function 'serial_unlink_irq_chain': drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:1712:2: warning: 'i' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] $ > > Fine by me. > > Acked-by: Alan Cox <a...@linux.intel.com> > > -- 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/
