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commit 6fce58b02b953ddcadf9d2f18aa35d8bef69fce5
Author: qing zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 07:39:31 2021 -0700
gcc-12/changes.html: Uninitialized stack variables initialization update
* htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html (Eliminating uninitialized variables):
Item about the support for automatic static variable initialization.
diff --git a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
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--- a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
+++ b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
@@ -247,6 +247,25 @@ a work-in-progress.</p>
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<h2>Other significant improvements</h2>
+<h3 id="uninitialized">Eliminating uninitialized variables</h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>GCC can now initialize all stack variables implicitly, including
+ padding. This is intended to eliminate all classes of uninitialized
+ stack variable flaws. Lack of explicit initialization will still
+ warn when <code>-Wuninitialized</code> is active. For best
+ debugging, use of the new command-line option
+ <code>-ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern</code> can be used to fill
+ variables with a repeated <code>0xFE</code> pattern, which tends to
+ illuminate many bugs (e.g. pointers receive invalid addresses, sizes
+ and indices are very large). For best production results, the new
+ command-line option <code>-ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero</code> can be
+ used to fill variables with <code>0x00</code>, which tends to provide
+ a safer state for bugs (e.g. pointers are <code>NULL</code>, strings
+ are <code>NUL</code> filled, and sizes and indices are <code>0</code>).
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
<h3 id="debug">Debugging formats</h3>
<ul>
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