Subject: bug#57208: 29.0.50; Uninitialized compilation warnings in xterm.c

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:36:31 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:34:19 +0300
> From:  "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Po Lu [2022-08-15 08:52 +0800] wrote:
> 
> > Yes, those are all bogus.  I installed something different to pacify
> > them on master.
> 
> Thanks.  Just curious: what's the advantage of using UNINIT?
> When should it or shouldn't it be preferred?

It should be used when the warning is due to a compiler bug or
misfeature, and our code is fine.  That's what UNINIT says: it says
that it's okay to leave this variable uninitialized.