[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] make sure initialization happens even after goto fires

[Måns Rullgård]

Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:08:40AM -0700, Erik Hovland wrote:
>> > The goto in ff_h264_find_frame_end() is inside an else clause. The
>> > initialization for v happens in the if clause elsewhere. That means that
>> > it is possible for the goto to fire without the initialization of v
>> > happening. Normally this isn't a problem. But gcc recognizes this and
>> > throws an internal parse warning. It then has to go through a special
>> > code branch to take care of this. If the initialization of v always
>> > happens before either clause this does not happen. The attached patch
>> > does just that.
>> 
>> Is there any bug in our code?
>
> Well, that is an interesting question. It would be a bug if the goto
> fired without v being initialized. Which is possible, but highly
> unlikely.

It doesn't matter whether it's initialised, since v is never used
after the 'found' label is reached.

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