Re: [XBoard-devel] gcc warnings

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 16-04-2012 19:18, address@hidden skrev:

>  book.c: In function 'entry_from_file':
>  book.c:391:19: warning: 'r' may be used uninitialized in this function 
> [-Wuninitialized]
>  book.c:400:12: note: 'r' was declared here



> The one in book.c is a red herring: a pointer to the variable is 
passed to a routine that initializes it,
> but the compiler cannot see that. The warning can be safely 
suppressed by just declaring as r=0.

It sure looks like a genuine bug to me. The variable r is declared in 
function entry_from_file() line 400, and is never initialized before it 
is used in function int_from_file() line 391. Just like gcc says - it 
indeed does some interprocedural analysis.