I suggest you check gcc man page to see each -W option you chose. I'm using the test case proposed on documentation: --- x --- int f() { int i = i; return i; } int main() { f(); return 0; } --- x --- $ gcc -Wall -Wuninitialized -Winit-self -O1 c.c -o c c.c: In function ‘f’: c.c:11: warning: ‘i’ is used uninitialized in this function $ gcc -Wall -Wuninitialized -O1 c.c -o c --tm On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:53 AM, smallboat <smallboatca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. But -Winit-self still does not remove this warning. > > This is the warnings I included in compiling:' > > -Wall -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wchar-subscripts -Wcomment -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdiv-by-zero -Wendif-labels -Wformat -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Wimport -Winline -Winvalid-pch -Wlong-long -Wmain -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmultichar -Wnested-externs -Wnonnull -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wswitch-default -Wswitch-enum -Wsystem-headers -Wtrigraphs -Wunknown-pragmas -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-value -Wunused-variable -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wno-pointer-sign -Wunused > > --- On Wed, 6/23/10, Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Tiago Maluta <tiago.maluta@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: how to ignore "X variable may be used uninitialized in this function" >> To: "smallboatca@xxxxxxxxx" <smallboatca@xxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 9:30 PM >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:59 AM, smallboatca@xxxxxxxxx >> <smallboatca@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I got this "cond" may be used uninitialized in this >> function waring in >> > compiling my program. >> > >> > I used -Wuninitialized to ignore this warning, but it >> does not work. >> > Do you know which option (-W????) is for this "X >> variable may be used >> > uninitialized in this function"? Thanks >> > >> >> If you want _ignore_ this warning just omit -Winit-self >> >> --tm >> > > > >