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Re: missed uninitialised variable warning
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 04 Aug 2003 09:47:26 -0300
- Subject: Re: missed uninitialised variable warning
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308041310240.17944-100000@wotan.suse.de>
On Aug 4, 2003, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> int foo(void)
>> {
>> int i = i;
>> return i;
>> }
> That's a feature.
Not really. At some point I thought it was, and even argued for it,
but then I was convinced with hard data that it was just a bug that
I'd happened to take for a feature, and that it was actually
undesirable, but hard to fix.
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