Re: comiler warnings

[Tom Emerson <tree at basistech dot com>]

Dima Sorkin writes:
> On 12/25/05, Tom Emerson wrote:
> > > for(unsigned i;i<10;++i){
> > >     do something with "i";
> > > }
> > Presumably because with -g the uninitialized variable check isn't
> > performed. The behavior of that code is undefined: you really want to
> > be initializing that loop variable.
> 
>  Is it a compiler's bug that it doesn't warn about it in debug mode ?

No. As I said, the analysis done to find uninitialized variable use is
not done when optimizations are turned off. That's just the way it is.

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Tom Emerson                                          Basis Technology Corp.
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