[Bug c/36951] New: uninitialized-variable warning misnames program objects after inlining

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Compiling the attached piece of code produces this:

  foo.c: In function 'bar':
  foo.c:8: warning: 'bar_thing.member' is used uninitialized in this function

but line 8 is in foo(), not bar, and bar_thing isn't in scope.

It has inlined foo (confirmed in the assembler output) and it's
reporting about the inlined assignment, but it's doing so in a... less
than desirable way.

When I hit this on real source, the inlined function and the call site
were 1000 lines apart, and the reported name of the variable at the
call site (equivalent to "bar_thing") was not illuminating, so I had
to get most of the way through preparing the minimal bug report before
I realized what was going on.

I've seen this on several configurations of gcc 4.1.2 (and also the
pre-4.1.3 snap NetBSD is currently using) but I don't have any newer
gccs than that on hand.

If you don't care because nobody cares about 4.1 any more and it
doesn't repeat on newer gccs, oh well.

Environment:
System: NetBSD tanaqui 4.99.54 NetBSD 4.99.54 (TANAQUI) #21: Fri Feb 29
12:31:31 EST 2008 dholland@tanaqui:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TANAQUI i386
host: i386-unknown-netbsdelf4.99.19
build: i386-unknown-netbsdelf4.99.19
target: mips-unknown-linux-gnu
configured with:
/home/dholland/projects/os161/toolchain/work2007/test-gcc/./gcc-4.1.2+cs161/configure
--target=mips-linux --nfp --disable-shared --disable-threads
--disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --prefix=/home/dholland/cs161/tools

How-To-Repeat:

gcc -Wall -O -c foo.i

foo.i:
   ------------
# 1 "foo.c"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command line>"
# 1 "foo.c"
struct thing {
   int member;
};

struct thing *external;

static void foo(struct thing foo_thing) {
   *external = foo_thing;
}

void bar(void) {
   struct thing bar_thing;
   foo(bar_thing);
}
   ------------


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           Summary: uninitialized-variable warning misnames program objects
                    after inlining
           Product: gcc
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: dholland at eecs dot harvard dot edu
 GCC build triplet: i386-unknown-netbsdelf4.99.19
  GCC host triplet: i386-unknown-netbsdelf4.99.19
GCC target triplet: mips-unknown-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36951