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Re: [Patch, libgfortran] PR 41219 Silence uninitialized variable warning
>
>>>>> the patch below fixes the "use of uninitialized variable" warning in
>>>>> unix.c. It's a spurious warning as the fstat() call will initialize
>>>>> the stat struct, but gcc can't see it.
>>>>>
>>>> Huh, that looks odd. I bet this is SRA at work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
> Moreover, I have now actually looked at the dumps and both SRA and
> early SRA do nothing in that function.
>
The error was due to a bug in the header file for MinGW-win64 which
contained some inline fstat() work, but did not intialize the struct if
a failure occured. This is said to be fixed in SVN and said to produce
no warning. See last comment in the PR for details.
Tobias