GNU bug report logs - #13448
Cannot build Emacs 24.2.92

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 13448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 13448 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13448: Cannot build Emacs 24.2.92
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:48:46 +0100

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In file included from /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c:250:0,
>                  from /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c:640,
>                  from :20:
> /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c: In function ‘main’:
> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stdio2.h:98:3: error: ‘type’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> In file included from /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c:247:0,
>                  from /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c:640,
>                  from :20:
> /home/xfq/emacs-24.2.92/lib-src/make-docfile.c:627:19: note: ‘type’ was declared here

Your compiler isn't smart enough to see that the variable type is always
initialized before use.  But emacs shouldn't use -Wmaybe-uninitialized
anyway, since that triggers a lot of spurious warnings in various
compilers.

Andreas.

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