On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> writes: > >> If it is the non-expert that would be caught in code so non-obvious that >> -Wuninitialized would trip into false positives, then it is highly >> likely that the code might in fact contain an error. > > I wish this were the case, but alas I continue to see fairly trivial false > positives from -Wuninitialized. Usually cases where the initialization > and the use are both protected by equivalent conditionals at different > places in the function. > > Personally, as a matter of *style*, I eliminate such cases either by > initializing the variable or restructuring the function. But this is very > much a question of style, not of correctness.
-Wuninitialized wasn't on the list I sent Arnaud. (We were just arguing with different point of view on something we appeared to agree on.) -- Gaby
