On Tuesday 01 September 2009 15:58:14 Anton Vorontsov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 08:52:33PM +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > > > > > +/* compiler options */ > > > > > +#define uninitialized_var(x) x = x > > > > > > > > Please excuse my ignorance, but where and what for is such a > > > > definition useful? > > > > > > It's used to avoid GCC warnings, i.e. when GCC isn't smart enough > > > to see that some variable isn't actually used uninitialized. > > > > > > ~/linux-2.6$ git grep uninitialized_var drivers/ | wc -l > > > 94 > > > > You seem to be grepping the linux source tree. > > Yes, which is a great source of best practices.
except you didnt filter drivers/staging/ thus negating any results you might try to use to back up arguments -mike
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