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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts/kconfig/menu.c: warning: jump may be used uninitialized in this function
Christian, All,

On 2013-10-27 19:02 -0700, Christian Kujau spake thusly:
> On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 at 18:28, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > While doing "make oldconfig" on 3.12-rc7 with gcc-4.7.2 (Debian), the
> > following warning is printed:
> >
> > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
> > In file included from scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2537:0:
> > /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c: In function ‘get_symbol_str’:
> > /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c:586:18: warning: ‘jump’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> > /usr/local/src/linux-git/scripts/kconfig/menu.c:547:19: note: ‘jump’ was declared here
>
> Grrr, only after I sent this message I found this was reported in
> September already by Madhavan Srinivasan: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/19/24
>
> Does anybody know the state of this fix?

The solution was to properly comment that this was a gcc issue, in that
this is a spurious error, does not appear in previous gcc versions, and
has been fixed in later gcc versions.

Setting 'jump' to NULL may hide reall issues in case the code is changed
in the future, so it is not appropriate a fix. Hence why the previously-
submitted patches were not applied.

I'll take this on me to properly fix this. Thanks for the heads up.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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