linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd/ubi: silence gcc warning

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Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 15:54:57 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd/ubi: silence gcc warning

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 07:32 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Silence the gcc warning
> 
> drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c: In function ‘ubi_eba_read_leb’:
> drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c:371: warning: ‘crc’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> This is an example of the uninit'd-var warnings emitted by gcc that
> can be proven to be bogus.
> 
> Normally I would commit this to my git repository containing
> such verified cases, but with all the goto-driven control flow in
> ubi_eba_read_leb(), I feel that initializing the 'crc' variable is
> an easy way to both shut up gcc, and also make the code less fragile
> for the long term.

Committed to the UBI git tree, thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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