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Re: Add uninitialized attribute?

On 08/30/2010 03:50 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely so.  I suspect it's even undefined behaviour in the standard
language.  There's no way that this idiom should appear anywhere in
GNU code.

Andrew.
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