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Re: -Wuninitialized issues

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 20:35 -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > Have another option to detect variables which are set but their values
>  > are not used (this was in one of the -Wuninitialized bugs and has been
>  > asked before).  The EDG front-end implements this option.
>  > Andrew Pinski
> 
> The sgi compiler detects this also.  I'd really like gcc to have it,
> but it seems to be an orthogonal project.
I'd be real curious to know how they did this.  Particularly since
it plays into a lot of the same questions.  OK, not curious enough
to go look at their code myself :-)

For example, if the only use was inside an unreachable hunk of
code, does that count as a use or not?



jeff
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