Initialize the pointer 'o' in options__order to NULL to prevent a
compiler warning/error which is observed when compiling with the '-Og'
option, but is not emitted by the compiler with the current default
compilation options.
For example, when compiling libsubcmd with
$ make "EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Og" -C tools/lib/subcmd/ clean all
Clang version 17.0.6 and GCC 13.3.1 fail to compile parse-options.c due
to following error:
parse-options.c: In function ‘options__order’:
parse-options.c:832:9: error: ‘o’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
832 | memcpy(&ordered[nr_opts], o, sizeof(*o));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
parse-options.c:810:30: note: ‘o’ was declared here
810 | const struct option *o, *p = opts;
| ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
Signed-off-by: Eder Zulian <ezulian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
index eb896d30545b..555d617c1f50 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ static int option__cmp(const void *va, const void *vb)
static struct option *options__order(const struct option *opts)
{
int nr_opts = 0, nr_group = 0, nr_parent = 0, len;
- const struct option *o, *p = opts;
+ const struct option *o = NULL, *p = opts;
struct option *opt, *ordered = NULL, *group;
/* flatten the options that have parents */
--
2.46.2
