Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] misc: suppress build warning | Date | Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:59:28 +0100 |
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On Thursday 04 December 2014 14:38:30 Lad, Prabhakar wrote: > this patch fixes following build warning: > > drivers/misc/ioc4.c: In function ‘ioc4_probe’: > drivers/misc/ioc4.c:194:16: warning: ‘start’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] > period = (end - start) / > ^ > drivers/misc/ioc4.c:148:11: note: ‘start’ was declared here > uint64_t start, end, period; > > Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Please explain why the compiler thinks there is a bug, why you are sure that there isn't, and why you picked '0' as the initialization value.
Arnd
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