> From: Juhani Viheräkoski moonsh...@kapsi.fi > Hi, > > For me the build of the current master fails with: > > libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DBUILDING_LIBGUILE=1 -I.. -I.. -I../lib > -I../lib -pthread -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -fvisibility=hidden -O3 -g > -march=athlon-xp -MT libguile_la-strings.lo -MD -MP -MF > .deps/libguile_la-strings.Tpo -c strings.c -fPIC -DPIC -o > .libs/libguile_la-strings.o > cc1: warnings being treated as errors > strings.c: In function ‘scm_string_append’: > strings.c:1300: error: ‘data’ may be used uninitialized in this function > make[3]: *** [libguile_la-strings.lo] Error 1 > > It is easy to disable -Werror or set the offending variable to NULL, but with my > limited knowledge of Guile internals it seems that this uninitialized pointer is > indeed passed to scm_i_make_string or scm_i_make_wide_string which do not > seem
> to reserve space for it and even dereference the pointer. Might be just me, but > it seems there is something weird going on here.. > This one's okay, I think. The allocation is made in make_stringbuf and `data' is set to point to its buffer. We'll have to set it to NULL in scm_string_append and other places to quiet warnings. > -- Juhani Thanks, -Mike
