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Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:38:01 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf events: Fix false positive build warning with older GCC's

Commit-ID:  55632770d7298835645489828af87f854c47749c
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/55632770d7298835645489828af87f854c47749c
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
AuthorDate: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:51:16 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:03:24 +0100

perf events: Fix false positive build warning with older GCC's

gcc 4.2.1 produces:

 util/probe-event.c: In function 'add_perf_probe_events':
 util/probe-event.c:883: warning: 'tev' may be used uninitialized in this function
 make: *** [util/probe-event.o] Error 1

Newer GCCs get this right.

To work it around, initialize the variable to NULL so that older GCCs see
it as initialized too.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100316220612.32050.33806.stgit@...alhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index f333269..c6603f3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ static void __add_kprobe_trace_events(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
 				      int ntevs, bool allow_suffix)
 {
 	int i, fd;
-	struct kprobe_trace_event *tev;
+	struct kprobe_trace_event *tev = NULL;
 	char buf[64];
 	const char *event, *group;
 	struct strlist *namelist;
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