Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository

[Roland Dreier]

    Andrew> The downsides are that it muckies up the source a little
    Andrew> and introduces a very small risk that real
    Andrew> use-uninitialised bugs will be hidden.  But I believe the
    Andrew> benefit outweighs those disadvantages.

Not sure I agree -- it adds one more thing that must be maintained
when reorganizing code.  I think there is a pretty high risk of this
sort of warning silencing hiding a bug introduced later, which would
have triggered an "is used uninitialized" warning.

Perhaps asking for a gcc flag that turns off "may be used" warnings
but leaves "is used" warnings would be useful (or does it already exist?)
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