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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 47080-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47080: 28.0.50; Spurious variable left uninitialized compiler warning
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:37:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr1kjc2pz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im5vzz9e.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sat, 13 Mar 2021 01:13:49 +0100")

>> Indeed, the warning could even be generalized to other trivial constant
>> values like `t`, but I think what we have already gives enough false
>> positives ;-)
> FWIW, I also got one or two true positives in my own stuff.
> To avoid false positives, is it possible to limit the warning to "human
> written" code or to code that is not the result of macro expansion?

It's somewhere between difficult and impossible with the current setup.
Hygienic macro systems should be able to get that information, but
our macro system doesn't keep track of it.

It would require efforts similar to those needed to preserve
file+line+col information.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-13  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-12  0:04 bug#47080: 28.0.50; Spurious variable left uninitialized compiler warning Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-12  0:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-12  0:39   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-12  2:58   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-12  3:07     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-12  3:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-13  0:13         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-13  0:37           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-03-13  0:44             ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-13  0:58               ` Stefan Monnier

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