[PATCH] Fix maybe-used-uninitialised warning.

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Jan 9 13:36:00 GMT 2010


On Jan  9 11:31, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>   Here are two small fixes shown up by more sensitive warnings in gcc-4.5.0.
> In hookapi.cc, it notices that the loop might not run even once; in
> fhandler_tty, it appears to miss that the loops can never exit.  That probably
> needs fixing upstream (but it may be some odd artifact of C++ language rules,
> since it only happens there, not in plain C; something to do with exceptional
> exits, maybe), but until then it seemed harmless to add a trivial return zero;
> it'll only add a handful of bytes to the dll.  (I tested attribute noreturn
> and it didn't help.)
> 
> winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* hookapi.cc (hook_or_detect_cygwin): Initialise i earlier to avoid
> 	warning.
> 
>   OK?
> 
> winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog:
> 
> 	* fhandler_tty.cc (process_input): Add redundant final return to
> 	silence (bogus?) warning.
> 
>   OK, or wait to see what upstream says about it?

Looks ok to me, independently of upstream.  It's just an elaborate
no-op.  Chris?


Corinna

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