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valgrind warning: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) in note_mouse_highlight

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: valgrind warning: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
	value(s) in note_mouse_highlight
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:41:27 -0400

valgrind ./temacs -Q

gives this warning:

==7776== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==7776==    at 0x4738C5: note_mouse_highlight (xdisp.c:26977)
==7776==    by 0x4F8682: note_mouse_movement (xterm.c:3833)
==7776==    by 0x4FCBB1: handle_one_xevent (xterm.c:6667)
==7776==    by 0x4FD815: XTread_socket (xterm.c:7148)
==7776==    by 0x5438DB: read_avail_input (keyboard.c:6821)
==7776==    by 0x544183: handle_async_input (keyboard.c:7149)
==7776==    by 0x5441A2: process_pending_signals (keyboard.c:7165)
==7776==    by 0x5AACF5: re_match_2_internal (regex.c:5888)
==7776==    by 0x5A6780: re_search_2 (regex.c:4481)
==7776==    by 0x5A57C5: re_search (regex.c:4262)
==7776==    by 0x59260A: fast_string_match (search.c:482)
==7776==    by 0x578870: Ffind_file_name_handler (fileio.c:286)
==7776== 

This is legitimate, the code is looking at the value of "area" inside a conditional:

      if (glyph == NULL
[snip]

"area" is computed by this code:
      /* Find the glyph under X/Y.  */
      glyph = x_y_to_hpos_vpos (w, x, y, &hpos, &vpos, &dx, &dy, &area);

but "area" is not set when `x_y_to_hpos_vpos' return NULL.

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