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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Purpose of "struct object_entry *oe = oe;"?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:28:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8039w681lo.fsf@tiny.isode.net> (raw)

Out of curiousity, where did this convention/idiom come from, and what's
it for?

I presume it's to remove a warning ("oe might be used uninitialised") on
a compiler (or something) that's clever enough to attempt such analysis
but too stupid to notice that the supposed initialisation is using
something uninitialised (or perhaps the compiler's deliberately
recognising the convention?).  Is that right, or does it actually do
something more?

I'm mostly surprised that it surprises me.  Is it used commonly in other
projects?  (It appears not to be mentioned in CodingGuidelines; should
it be?)

(First instance in git that I can see is
67affd5173da059ca60aab7896985331acacd9b4, 2006.)

             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 12:28 Bruce Stephens [this message]
2010-07-02  1:43 ` Purpose of "struct object_entry *oe = oe;"? Joshua Juran
2010-07-02  8:48 ` David Aguilar
2010-07-02  9:28   ` Bruce Stephens

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