[vlc-devel] Build's broken

Pierre d'Herbemont pdherbemont at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 11:43:53 CEST 2009


On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>  
wrote:

>
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:58:13 +0200, Pierre d'Herbemont
> <pdherbemont at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If it doesn't work we can consider gcc -Wunitialized as too buggy to
>> be reliable as an error. (This will depend on gcc version though).
>
> The warning does say "may be". And I think we cannot blame GCC here,  
> as
> this seems equivalent to the halting problem.
>
> IIRC, GCC prints a slightly different message when it is sure that the
> variable is uninitialized, but I guess there is only one command  
> line flags
> for both.

Good point, I think there is a dinstinction as well. If the false  
positive can't be avoided, then we have no choice but to remove - 
Werror=uninitialized entirely. And probably wait for more granularity  
for this Warning.

Pierre.


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