linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: tile: kernel: unaligned.c: Cleaning up uninitialized variables

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Message-ID: <5393BF61.5010306@tilera.com>
Date:	Sat, 7 Jun 2014 21:41:53 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: tile: kernel: unaligned.c:  Cleaning up uninitialized
 variables

On 5/31/2014 7:00 PM, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist<rickard_strandqvist@...ctrumdigital.se>
> ---
>   arch/tile/kernel/unaligned.c |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks!  Taken into the tile tree with some slight modifications (initialize variables to -1 not 0, and remove the resulting dead code in find_regs).

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

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