linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-compress: avoid false-positive Wuninitialized warning

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Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:49:24 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Cc:     Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-compress: avoid false-positive Wuninitialized
 warning

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:35:43PM +0800, Rong Chen wrote:
> gcc-6.5 and earlier show a new warning:
> 
> sound/soc/soc-compress.c: In function ‘soc_compr_open’:
> sound/soc/soc-compress.c:75:28: warning: ‘component’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>   struct snd_soc_component *component, *save = NULL;
>                               ^~~~~~~~~

> Simplest fix is to initialize it to avoid the warning.

This doesn't apply against current code, please check and resend.  TBH
I'm not 100% sure the benefit here is worth it, this is a very old
compiler and it seems like a bug in the compiler.

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