linux-kernel - Re: Linux 6.3-rc3

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:30:17 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Linux 6.3-rc3

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 1:05 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
>
> I have noticed that gcc doesn't always warn about uninitialized variables
> in most architectures.

Yeah, I'm getting the feeling that when the gcc people were trying to
make -Wmaybe-uninitialized work better (when moving it into "-Wall"),
they ended up moving a lot of "clearly uninitialized" cases into it.

So then because we disable the "maybe" case (with
-Wno-maybe-uninitialized) because it had too many random false
positives, we end up not seeing the obvious cases either.

              Linus