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Re: Add uninitialized attribute?

On 2010-08-30 14:46:57 +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> int x = x;
> 
> is the way GCC offers this idiom since about forever, no need for an 
> attribute.  Downthread I see that people worry about this generating an 
> actual (uninitialized) access to x.  They are confused.

This is not a good idea as "int x = x;" may really generate an
(uninitialized) access to x with other compilers.

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