Re: [PATCH 2.3.48] initrd fix (Mike Galbraith)

From: Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 01:35:34 EST

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phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips) writes:
>
> One *small* reason is that you will get "variable may be used uninitialized"
> warnings from the compiler if the variable is always set inside conditionals
> and it can't be proved that every path hits an assignment.

We're talking about variables outside of functions here.
They're zeroed out by the BSS init code, and the C compiler knows that.

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