From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: David Brown <david@westcontrol.com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Martin Uecker <uecker@tugraz.at>,
Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] -Wuninitialized: initialize variable with itself
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 12:30:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2385341c-f4d0-e707-53d8-061e261e0688@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18215302-3f22-e023-c188-d67b7e70dbff@westcontrol.com>
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Hi David,
On 11/14/22 10:41, David Brown wrote:
> On 13/11/2022 19:43, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc wrote:
>> Hi Andrew!
>>
>> On 11/13/22 19:41, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:40 AM Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:36 AM Alejandro Colomar via Gcc
>>>> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> While discussing some idea for a new feature, I tested the following example
>>>>> program:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> int main(void)
>>>>> {
>>>>> int i = i;
>>>>> return i;
>>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> This is NOT a bug but a documented way of having the warning not being there.
>>>> See
>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Winit-self
>>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wuninitialized
>>>> "If you want to warn about code that uses the uninitialized value of
>>>> the variable in its own initializer, use the -Winit-self option."
>>>
>>> I should note the main reason why I Know about this is because I fixed
>>> this feature years ago (at least for C front-end)
>>> and added the option to disable the feature.
>>
>> I'm curious: what are the reasons why one would want to disable such a warning?
>> Why is it not in -Wall or -Wextra?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>
> Warnings are not perfect - there is always the risk of false positives and false
> negatives. And different people will have different ideas about what code is
> perfectly reasonable, and what code is risky and should trigger a warning. Thus
> gcc has warning flag groups (-Wall, -Wextra) that try to match common consensus,
> and individual flags for personal fine-tuning.
>
> Sometimes it is useful to have a simple way to override a warning in code,
> without going through "#pragma GCC diagnostic" lines (which are powerful, but
> not pretty).
>
> So if you have :
>
> int i;
> if (a == 1) i = 1;
> if (b == 1) i = 2;
> if (c == 1) i = 3;
> return i;
>
> the compiler will warn that "i" may not be initialised. But if you /know/ that
> one of the three conditions will match (or you don't care what "i" is if it does
> not match), then you know your code is fine and don't want the warning. Writing
> "int i = i;" is a way of telling the compiler "I know what I am doing, even
> though this code looks dodgy, because I know more than you do".
Ahh, that makes sense. Since the default warnings warn about 'int i=i+1;' it
makes sense to me. Writing 'int i=i;' is just too stupid that can be considered
a reasonable way to tell the compiler we know better.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Alex
>
> It's just like writing "while ((*p++ = *q++));", or using a cast to void to turn
> off an "unused parameter" warning.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-14 11:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-13 18:34 Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-13 18:40 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-11-13 18:41 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-11-13 18:43 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-14 9:41 ` David Brown
2022-11-14 11:30 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2022-11-14 15:10 ` NightStrike
2022-11-14 15:49 ` David Brown
2022-11-14 17:43 ` NightStrike
2022-11-13 18:45 ` Andrew Pinski
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