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Re: proposal to clean up @node Warning Options in invoke.texi
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:08:48AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> I'm well aware of the history of "-Winit-self". The issue is more
> subtile that you would like to make it appear. You would have to study
> more carefully the threads relating to this issue. If you dig the
> archive, you should be able to find example of
>
> circular_buffer buf = buf;
>
> [ or void* p = &p; ]
There isn't really a subtlety; void* p = &p is well-defined, and the same
is true for other cases where only the address, but not the (undefined)
value of the initializer is used.
I consider 'int i = i;' a botch that somehow evolved into a promise.
I'm not going to re-open the war of 2002, but I was never happy with it.