On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 06:10:49PM -0700, Jason Gerecke wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 05:30:55PM -0700, Jason Gerecke wrote:
> > [...]
> >> >> diff --git a/tools/isdv4-serial-debugger.c 
> >> >> b/tools/isdv4-serial-debugger.c
> >> >> index 6629cb6..03abd26 100644
> >> >> --- a/tools/isdv4-serial-debugger.c
> >> >> +++ b/tools/isdv4-serial-debugger.c
> >> >> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> >> >>
> >> >>  #include "tools-shared.h"
> >> >>
> >> >> +extern int verbose;
> >> >>  int verbose = 0;
> >> >>
> >> >>  static void usage(void)
> >> >> diff --git a/tools/isdv4-serial-inputattach.c 
> >> >> b/tools/isdv4-serial-inputattach.c
> >> >> index fedfce4..6003d30 100644
> >> >> --- a/tools/isdv4-serial-inputattach.c
> >> >> +++ b/tools/isdv4-serial-inputattach.c
> >> >> @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
> >> >>
> >> >>  #include "tools-shared.h"
> >> >>
> >> >> -int verbose;
> >> >> +extern int verbose;
> >> >> +int verbose = 0;
> >> >
> >> > that doesn't look right.
> >> >
> >> > Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>
> >> > for the series otherwise
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >    Peter
> >> >
> >>
> >> Can you go into a bit more detail? From what I understand, the
> >> language already guarantees that a file-scope variable is visible
> >> extern and initialized to zero. The code relies on that behavior as
> >> well, as its referenced by tools-shared.c and is expected to be zero
> >> by default. Really, this and the similar hunk for isdv4-serial-debug.c
> >> are just to shut up to checker (which I'm aware isn't always a sane
> >> idea, but seemed fine in this instance).
> >
> > I was mostly referring to declaring it as extern just before initializing it
> > right there. Dropping the extern line should work, or does that cause some
> > other warning?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >    Peter
> >
> 
> Pops up another warning in both clang ("warning: 'extern' variable has
> an initializer") and gcc ("warning: ‘verbose’ initialized and declared
> ‘extern’). Neither seem to have an issue with declaring and defining
> separately.

that's with just having 
int verbose = 0;

in this file and the extern line in the other file? or does it then complain
about verbose not being declared? if it does that, ack for this one anyway.

Cheers,
   Peter

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