Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Just initializing match_color where it is defined at the beginning of >> show_line() should be sufficient, I think. > > I think that we could also use the following, and leave the `if > (opt->color)` conditional where it is: > > diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c > index 48cca6723e..b985fb3ee0 100644 > --- a/grep.c > +++ b/grep.c > @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ static void show_line(struct grep_opt *opt, char *bol, char *eol, > const char *name, unsigned lno, ssize_t cno, char sign) > { > int rest = eol - bol; > - const char *match_color, *line_color = NULL; > + const char *match_color = NULL, *line_color = NULL; > > if (opt->file_break && opt->last_shown == 0) { > if (opt->show_hunk_mark) You say "we could also", but the above is exactly what I suggested, so we seem to be on the same page, which is good ;-)