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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 6cd5678: Clarify compiler-pacifier in frame.c


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 6cd5678: Clarify compiler-pacifier in frame.c
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:43:25 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:05:33 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Do you have a guess why GCC might get lost in that code?
> 
> Sure, lots of guesses.

Well, I don't think this discussion is going anywhere useful, so let's
end it.

> > UNINIT is for you to be able to use your tools of choice, and
> > perhaps also to cater to your personal stylistic preferences.
> 
> It's not just me using those tools. And UNINIT is not my stylistic 
> preference: I 
> don't like using UNINIT and when variables need not be initialized I'd rather 
> just not initialize them (this is the longstanding tradition in GNU and UNIX 
> code). The only reason for UNINIT is that it's more useful for preventing and 
> catching bugs than its alternatives are.

We clearly disagree here.



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