Re: [xfs-masters] 2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc

[Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>]

--On 20 May 2007 9:25:42 PM -0700 Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:25:06PM +1000, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
>
> > However, we can init it on definition to shut the warning up.
> Please don't.  It's not a bug, doing an unneeded init just to silence
> gcc (gcc could be smarter in some cases) has the potential to hide
> real bugs later on.
:)
Yeah, I was discussing with this with someone earlier today.
He suggested that it was better to init it (to say NULLRTBLOCK)
because it was more likely to find a problem (if we change/add code
later on incorrectly)
than if we leave it to be unitialised with a random value.

--Tim