On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 16:18 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > If you try to return an uninitialized value the compiler will warn you, > you'll then look at the code and realise you missed a case, you might > save yourself a bug.
You *should* look at the code :) So should we be reporting these as bugs? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux/linux-2.6.17.6$ script make.script Script started, file is make.script [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux/linux-2.6.17.6$ make ... Script done, file is make.script [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux/linux-2.6.17.6$ fgrep warning make.script arch/i386/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c:12: warning: 'cpu_freq' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/bio.c:169: warning: 'idx' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/eventpoll.c:500: warning: 'fd' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/isofs/namei.c:162: warning: 'offset' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/isofs/namei.c:162: warning: 'block' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:292: warning: 'maxsize' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/udf/balloc.c:751: warning: 'goal_eloc.logicalBlockNum' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/udf/super.c:1358: warning: 'ino.partitionReferenceNum' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c:611: warning: 'nkey.ar_startblock' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c:611: warning: 'nkey.ar_blockcount' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c:2498: warning: 'rtx' is used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_btree.c:753: warning: 'nkey.br_startoff' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c:151: warning: 'action' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_dir.c:363: warning: 'totallen' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_dir.c:363: warning: 'count' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc_btree.c:545: warning: 'nkey.ir_startino' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c:1958: warning: 'last_dip' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c:1960: warning: 'last_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_log.c:1749: warning: 'iclog' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:523: warning: 'first_blk' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/msg.c:338: warning: 'setbuf.qbytes' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/msg.c:338: warning: 'setbuf.uid' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/msg.c:338: warning: 'setbuf.gid' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/msg.c:338: warning: 'setbuf.mode' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/sem.c:810: warning: 'setbuf.uid' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/sem.c:810: warning: 'setbuf.gid' may be used uninitialized in this function ipc/sem.c:810: warning: 'setbuf.mode' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/md/dm-table.c:431: warning: 'dev' may be used uninitialized in this function drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c:1388: warning: 'param' may be used uninitialized in this function net/sched/sch_cbq.c:409: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c:121: warning: 'r.base' may be used uninitialized in this function - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html