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Patch for bug 21160
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 23:53:55 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Patch for bug 21160
This patch fixes bug 21160, a tree-ssa regression in the documentation of
-Wuninitialized.
It passes "make info" and "make dvi". Applied to mainline and 4.0 branch.
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Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/
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2005-05-09 Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
PR c/21160
* doc/invoke.texi (-Wuninitialized): Update documentation.
diff -rupN GCC.orig/gcc/doc/invoke.texi GCC/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
--- GCC.orig/gcc/doc/invoke.texi 2005-05-09 21:56:08.000000000 +0000
+++ GCC/gcc/doc/invoke.texi 2005-05-09 23:43:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -2565,11 +2565,13 @@ get these warnings.
If you want to warn about code which uses the uninitialized value of the
variable in its own initializer, use the @option{-Winit-self} option.
-These warnings occur only for variables that are candidates for
-register allocation. Therefore, they do not occur for a variable that
-is declared @code{volatile}, or whose address is taken, or whose size
-is other than 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes. Also, they do not occur for
-structures, unions or arrays, even when they are in registers.
+These warnings occur for individual uninitialized or clobbered
+elements of structure, union or array variables as well as for
+variables which are uninitialized or clobbered as a whole. They do
+not occur for variables or elements declared @code{volatile}. Because
+these warnings depend on optimization, the exact variables or elements
+for which there are warnings will depend on the precise optimization
+options and version of GCC used.
Note that there may be no warning about a variable that is used only
to compute a value that itself is never used, because such