Re: silence some gcc -Wmaybe-uninitialized warnings

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/18/23 15:09, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Some time ago, a distro guy explained on this list that IF_LINT does not
> help in their situation, because the distro wants to build each package
> once, with the settings that produce the best code, _and_ have the compiler
> report warnings for this situation.

Yes, that's the typical situation.

> How about the following patches? They replace two uses of IF_LINT with
> #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wmaybe-uninitialized".
> The loss for reliability is small: it silences the "maybe uninitialized"
> findings for an entire function, instead of just for one variable.
> The upside is that it removes the warning on glibc systems and thereby
> helps the human developer (me) focusing on real warnings produced by gcc.

Yes, that's OK. As you say, the loss for reliability is small that way.