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Re: macrotab.c -Werror
> I don't actually know how many unnecessary initializations there are
> in GDB to silence the compiler, but it's my impression that the
> compiler's false positive rate for `var might be used uninitialized'
> warnings is low enough that it's still a useful sanity check.
See http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint_13.html#SEC104
When fixing the original warnings (few were present) a significant
number of those really were bugs. Look for Wuninitialized in the
ChangeLogs.
enjoy,
Andrew