Re: uninitialized variables bugs

From: Tom Rix
Date: Sun May 08 2022 - 08:18:09 EST



On 5/6/22 2:50 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
Hi Dan,

On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 12:13:38PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
Ever since commit 78a5255ffb6a ("Stop the ad-hoc games with
-Wno-maybe-initialized"), GCC's uninitialized variable warnings have
been disabled by default. Now, you have to turn on W=1 or W=2 to see
the warnings which nobody except Arnd does.
...
Clang's static analyzer, which Tom regularly runs, will check variables
across function boundaries. I am not sure what the false positive rate
on that check is but it does turn up issues like smatch does.

Clang's static analyzer is pretty go wrt uninitialized variables.

But the issues do not turn up in the report, the show up as errors and is why

I post a fix for a build break every couple of weeks.

Tom