[PATCH] Fix PR libstdc++/19510: Uninitialized variable in some iterators
Gabriel Dos Reis
gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Fri Jan 21 02:19:00 GMT 2005
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
| I think it's a mistake to add these explicit initializations on
| platforms that do not actually require it. Copying uninitialized data
| may be undefined in ISO C++, but on most systems it's well-defined:
| whatever bits happened to be there get copied. All you're
| accomplishing is making the library slower.
|
| On some systems (IA64) you can get traps on accessing registers with
| the NaT bit set, but on most others, there is no issue. I can see an
| argument for performing these default initializations in debugging
| mode, or with a flag set by the user, by the default behavior ought to
| be to go as fast as possible.
Most uses of iterators are in the form of definition+initialization.
So no issue there.
In the typical case where a singular iterator is created, it is
inlined and if the compiler cannot figure out that those inlined
initialization can be efficiently turned into something else, then
it is a compiler bug.
-- Gaby
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