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From: "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updated [test]: coreutils-8.24-2
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.x31nexczofd6j1@nebbiolo.upc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55DF7265.8050607@lysator.liu.se>

Am 27.08.2015, 21:26 Uhr, schrieb Peter Rosin:

> Seems like a fast way to not get a compiler warning if you do happen
> to use a variable that would be used uninitialized if it were not for
> an ugly pointless initializer.

> Sorry if I added the wrong number of negations in there, but you get my
> point anyway, hopefully...

Did you mean: "The compiler-warning would inform you that the value is not  
set in a code-path"?

That's why I usually try to avoid initializing auto-variables (and maybe  
save some bytes).

-Helmut


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26 22:50 Fergus
2015-08-26 23:28 ` Fergus
2015-08-26 23:50   ` Eric Blake
2015-08-27 20:26     ` Sam Edge
2015-08-27 20:51       ` Peter Rosin
2015-08-27 21:40         ` Helmut Karlowski [this message]
2015-08-28  0:53           ` Sam Edge
2015-08-26 23:28 ` Eric Blake

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