Messages in this thread | | | From | Prabhakar Lad <> | Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:13:00 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] misc: suppress build warning |
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > 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. > Its a false positive, to suppress the warning '0' was picked.
Thanks, --Prabhakar Lad
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