netdev - [iproute PATCH 2/2] tc_util: Silence spurious compiler warning

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:01:31 +0100
From:   Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [iproute PATCH 2/2] tc_util: Silence spurious compiler warning

GCC version 7.2.1 complains that 'result1' may be used uninitialized in
parse_action_control_slash_spaces(). This should not be possible in
practice, so the actual value 'result1' is initialized with does not
matter.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
---
 tc/tc_util.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tc/tc_util.c b/tc/tc_util.c
index b01362533cd56..55cdec5dfbe0a 100644
--- a/tc/tc_util.c
+++ b/tc/tc_util.c
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ static int parse_action_control_slash_spaces(int *argc_p, char ***argv_p,
 {
 	int argc = *argc_p;
 	char **argv = *argv_p;
-	int result1, result2;
+	int result1 = -1, result2;
 	int *result_p = &result1;
 	int ok = 0;
 	int ret;
-- 
2.13.1