Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:53:27AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Gcc will warn on the use of x when in fact it is perfectly OK, and we
> get quite a few of these in compiling a kernel.  At a minimum, I would
> like to be able to disable the "may be used uninitialized" warnings
> while still getting the "is used uninitialized" warnings.

Quite.  "may be used uninitialized" has _way_ too low S/N ratio - absolute
majority of these warnings are bogus.  Moreover, several very common use
patterns reliably trigger them.
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