On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Ian Lance Taylor<[email protected]> wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> writes: > >> * Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:12:50AM CEST: >>> Any opinions on this? Should I take the new warning out of -Wall? >> >> Is the missing of an initialization detected elsewhere, or can it be >> detected elsewhere, maybe only in cases where it actually leads to >> undefined behavior (as defined by C)? > > Yes, in many cases gcc will warn about using an uninitialized variable > via -Wuninitialized. >
I think it is a bad idea to include it in -Wall. You fixed 3 warnings in gcc and I fixed 1 in binutils. If you have thousands of packages in C, -Wall may generate hundreds of warnings. It will make gcc 4.5.0 unusable to those people. -- H.J.
