linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad_sigma_delta.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables

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Message-ID: <538AEF16.5070904@metafoo.de>
Date:	Sun, 01 Jun 2014 11:15:02 +0200
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
CC:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: adc: ad_sigma_delta.c:  Cleaning up uninitialized
 variables

On 06/01/2014 01:11 AM, Rickard Strandqvist wrote:
> There is a risk that the variable will be used without being initialized.
>
> This was largely found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck.

This looks like a false positive. And if it was not a false positive the 
correct fix certainly is not to initialize the variable to some random value 
to silence the warning.

- Lars

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