GNU bug report logs - #17336
[PATCH] grep: warning to be uninitialized with -Wall

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>

Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:19:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 17336-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 17336-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17336: [PATCH] grep: warning to be uninitialized with -Wall
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:58:40 +0900

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I agree.

Norihiro
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