[Ffmpeg-devel] Possible use of uninitialized variable

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:34:09AM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> 
> >GCC complains that the "line" variable defined on line 3550 snow.c
> >could be used without having been initialized.
> >
> >At first sight this appears to be the case, when start_y == 0. Line will
> >not be assigned on line 3554 but its uninitialized value will be
> >assigned to prev, which gets dereferenced in each of the possible
> >outcomes of the if's which follow (if end_y>1). Is end_y always <=1 if
> >start_y == 0?
> 
> All uses of prev are inside if(y).
> Yes, prev might be assigned an undefined value, but it won't be used in 
> that iteration.

yes, but iam not against something like

... line=0; //silence silly "could be used without having been initialized"
warning

it makes spotting real uninitalized variables easier (better signal to noise
ratio in gccs warnings)

[...]

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