Re: [PATCH] Fix compilation warnings in dquot.c of 2.2.14pre8

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:44:17 -0600 (CST)

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
> (didn't follow 2.2 for a while), but 99 times of 100 "stupid gcc
> complaining about uninitialized variables" actually has a good reason for
> such complaints. IOW, such change is _not_ a trivial cleanup. It may be

In 2.3.x at least, most of gcc's warnings of this nature [that I have
seen] are bogus, especially when using 2.95.2. A lot of these warnings
are generated from code which is logically correct, but gcc cannot
see that for whatever reason: scoping, gotos, thick headedness, etc.

Jeff

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