Re: [PATCH -mm] xfs gcc 4.1 warning fixes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:27:46AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:56:08PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Fixes the following warnings,
> > 
> > fs/xfs/xfs_dir.c: In function 'xfs_dir_removename':
> > 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
> > 
> 
> and so on.  that's all false positives.  gcc should be fixed here, not xfs.

gcc would need to know that xfs_dir_leaf_lookup_int() in xfs_dir_leaf.c 
does never return 0.

This is something gcc can't ever figure out automatically since it's in 
a different source file.

cu
Adrian

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