From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20593 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2003 12:47:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20583 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2003 12:47:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Aug 2003 12:47:32 -0000 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (aoliva.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.10]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h74ClTK04789; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:47:29 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h74ClSXH017706; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:47:28 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h74ClQNj017702; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:47:26 -0300 To: Michael Matz Cc: Andrew Morton , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: missed uninitialised variable warning References: From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:07:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On Aug 4, 2003, Michael Matz wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: >> int foo(void) >> { >> int i = i; >> return i; >> } > That's a feature. Not really. At some point I thought it was, and even argued for it, but then I was convinced with hard data that it was just a bug that I'd happened to take for a feature, and that it was actually undesirable, but hard to fix. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer