Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3] i386/io_apic: fix compiler warning in create_irq

[Ingo Molnar]

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:15:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >...
> > we definitely do not want to hide these places. They both make the 
> > code less readable (why initialize it to some value if that value is 
> > never used) and they hide the problem from the GCC folks too.
> 
> What about cases where it's technically impossible for gcc to ever see 
> that a variable actually gets initialized?

we should mark them as such or even initialize them outright. But these 
are the exception.

	Ingo
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