On 2012-04-05 16:44:28 -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> On 4/5/2012 4:24 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >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.
>
> Indeed, and for me, when you are forced to do an initialization like
> this, it is mandatory to comment why you are initializing it, otherwise
> it obscures the code ("why is this being initialized, where is that
> value used?") and that ends up junky IMO. The Ada front end unfortunately
> has quite a few such commented junk initializations.
And moreover, perhaps in such a case, other compilers and/or future
GCC versions would give a warning because a value is set but not used.
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