Am Freitag 15 Januar 2010 08:34:53 schrieb Johannes Sixt: > If you look around in the code, you'll find more *cough* initializations > *cough* like this. They are written this way for a reason: they avoid > unwarranted compiler warnings "'foo' may be used uninitialized". Are you > saying that this warning is not triggered anymore after your change? > I don't get a warning after my change. But I'm using on this system a quite old gcc (4.3.1). I'll recompile git with a more recent gcc and see what happens. Just for clarification: "int cmp = cmp;" *suppresses* only the warning but "cmp" is still uninitialized? (I did'nt know this trick before.) //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html