YANG LI wrote on Wed, Dec 30, 2020: > The pointer p is being used but it isn't being initialized, > need to assign a NULL to it.
My understanding is p has to be initialized: the only way out of the while(1) loop below sets it. I don't mind fixing false positive warnings as it makes maintenance easier for everyone, but: 1/ the commit message needs to reflect that and at least name which tool had a problem with it. I'm tempted to think this case is common enough that the tool ought to be fixed instead... 2/ the code needs to work in the p=NULL case if you set it that way (right now, it doesn't, so in the event the code changes in the future and there really comes a way to skip initialization this change would actually hinder bug detection -- it'd need to add a p == NULL check below, which is going to be useless code, but hopefully compilers will optimize it away) Thanks, -- Dominique
