public inbox for git@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu•org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft•com>,
	Pete Harlan <pgit@pcharlan•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug?] checkout -m doesn't work without a base version
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:20:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoipli8nzy.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhb13qbs6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
>> builtin/checkout.c: In function ‘cmd_checkout’:
>> builtin/checkout.c:210:5: warning: ‘mode’ may be used uninitialized
>> in this function [-Wuninitialized]
>> builtin/checkout.c:160:11: note: ‘mode’ was declared here
>
> Isn't this just your gcc being overly cautious (aka "silly")?
>
> The variable "mode" is assigned to when we see an stage #2 entry in the
> loop, and we should have updated threeway[1] immediately before doing so.
> If threeway[1] is not updated, we would have already returned before using
> the variable in make_cache_entry().

Maybe that is actually guaranteed (I dunno), but it's certainly not
obvious from the code here, even to a human... any guarantee would
have to come from external invariants that the compiler doesn't know
about.

Given that, I think it's a fair warning, certainly not "silly."  This
aspect of the code doesn't seem easy to understand...

-Miles

-- 
`To alcohol!  The cause of, and solution to,
 all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-15  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-04 22:31 [bug?] checkout -m doesn't work without a base version Pete Harlan
2011-12-05 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-07  7:30   ` Pete Harlan
2011-12-08 18:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-12  1:48       ` Pete Harlan
2011-12-12  5:29         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-20 20:37     ` [PATCH] t/t2023-checkout-m.sh: fix use of test_must_fail Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-12-20 21:23       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-14 10:19   ` [bug?] checkout -m doesn't work without a base version Michael Schubert
2011-12-14 17:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-15  4:20       ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-12-15 10:11         ` Michael Schubert
2011-12-15 10:42       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-12-15 17:36         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-16 22:38           ` Ramsay Jones

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=buoipli8nzy.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com \
    --to=miles@gnu$(echo .)org \
    --cc=git@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=gitster@pobox$(echo .)com \
    --cc=mschub@elegosoft$(echo .)com \
    --cc=pgit@pcharlan$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox