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Re: [PATCH] TRACING: Fix a copmile warning
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 21:08 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>
>> but the code generated seem to test %esi (`b', potentially
>> uninitialized) before %ebx (`a'). Am I still missing something ?
>
> But it tests 'a' again afterward. If 'a' is 0, it doesn't matter what
> 'b' was. So the uninitialized test is a wash. No harm done, except for
> some wasted CPU cycles.
>
I see, even if `b' is junk, the final logic does not change.
- Arnaud