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From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
To: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: /* compiler workaround */ - what was the issue?
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:48:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17E04501C9474282B87758C7998A1F5B@PhilipOakley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AA5B2B1715BAF7438221293187A417A7BDE9D11D@desmdswms002.des.grplnk.net

Duy,

In 
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/b3c96fb158f05152336f167076f5d81d23c3a5e5
(split-index: strip pathname of on-disk replaced entries, 13 Jun 2014) 
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>  you have

read-cache.c#L1790 (in that commit, now ~L1873)

    int saved_namelen = saved_namelen; /* compiler workaround */

Which then becomes an MSVC compile warning C4700: uninitialized local 
variable.

I'm wondering what was the compiler workaround being referred to? i.e. why 
does it need that tweak? There's no mention of the reason in the commit 
message.

There are a few other occurences of this same initialisation issue, so I was 
wondering if it's still neded? Or should I just get MSVC to ignore it, which 
may hide other issues..

--
Philip

       reply	other threads:[~2016-05-05 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AA5B2B1715BAF7438221293187A417A7BDE9D11D@desmdswms002.des.grplnk.net>
2016-05-05 20:48 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2016-05-05 21:41   ` /* compiler workaround */ - what was the issue? Junio C Hamano
2016-05-06 10:17     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-06 13:15       ` Philip Oakley
2016-05-06 18:05         ` Ramsay Jones
2016-05-06 18:33           ` Philip Oakley
2016-05-06 18:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-06 19:30             ` Marc Branchaud
2016-05-06 19:57               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-06 20:01                 ` Stefan Beller
2016-05-09 19:40                   ` Philip Oakley
2016-05-09 19:49                     ` Randall S. Becker
2016-05-06 20:28                 ` Marc Branchaud
2016-05-06 20:21             ` Ramsay Jones
2016-05-06 21:17               ` Ramsay Jones

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