On 08/20/2010 10:51 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > "H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Sometime I have to do >> >> int x = 0; >> >> to silence gcc from uninitialized warnings when I know it is >> unnecessary. Is that a good idea to add >> >> int x __attribute__ ((uninitialized)); >> >> to tell compiler that it is OK for "x" to be uninitialized?
Better to call it "initialized", analogous to attribute used/unused. > I think the general idea is reasonable. I also think it might be worth > spending a few minutes thinking about whether we can implement some more > general diagnostic suppression mechanism. E.g., > int x __attribute__ ((ignore ("-Wuninitialized"))); Or this. Bernd