missed uninitialised variable warning

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Mon Aug 4 18:32:00 GMT 2003


Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

| On Aug  4, 2003, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
| 
| >   unsigned char c = c;
| 
| Actually, I *think* this invokes undefined behavior, because you use
| an uninitialized value.  This is quite different from:

No.  The reason is that there is no trap representation for unsigned
char.   You can safely read an uninitialized unsigned char -- you just
get "random"  bit patterns.

-- Gaby



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