Re: [PATCH] silence gcc warning about possibly uninitialized use of variable in scsi_scan

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:39 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Gcc can't see that 'result' will always be initialized inside the for loop
> and thus it warns
>   drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c:445: warning: 'result' might be used uninitialized in this function
> This patch silences the warning by initializing 'result' to zero.

Really, this is a gcc bug.  My version of the compiler:

gcc version 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.2-5)

Doesn't give this warning.  And, since the loop has fixed parameters,
gcc should see not only that it's always executed, but that it could be
unrolled.

Which version is causing the problem?

James


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