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From: Patsy Franklin <pfrankli@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:16:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initialize pad outside the conditional to prevent
 uninitialized data warnings.
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Hi Florian,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2018 04:18 PM, Patsy Franklin wrote:
>>
>> Prior to this change, valgrind warned about unitialized bytes on
>> ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, and aarch64.
>
>
> How come that valgrind warns when it's supposed to be uninitialized padding?

The problem occurs when the partially initialized struct is written to
the file system.

I should have stated this in the original description.

Thanks,
Patsy