Norihiro Tanaka wrote: > I can't find any reasons that `accept' variable should be uninitialized. Two reasons. First, if we add initialization to the source, that might cause some compilers to generate less-efficient code. More important, adding initialization might cause some human readers of the code to become confused, and to think that the initialization is necessary. If you're using -Wall, I suggest configuring with './configure --enable-gcc-warnings', as that should avoid the problem. Come to think of it, perhaps we should get rid of the '#ifdef lint' code here, as in the attached patch. These days GCC is smart enough to figure this stuff out without that code, if one uses --enable-gcc-warnings. This works for me with GCC 4.9.0 and with GCC 4.8.2. --enable-gcc-warnings is intended for relatively-recent GCC versions; we needn't worry about supporting old versions.