Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] read-cache.c: initialize copy_len to shut up gcc 8

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On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 07:30:08PM +0200, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> It was reported that when building with NO_PTHREADS=1,
> -Wmaybe-uninitialized is triggered. Just initialize the variable from
> the beginning to shut the compiler up (because this warning is enabled
> in config.dev)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  read-cache.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
> index ba870bc3fd..4307b9a7bf 100644
> --- a/read-cache.c
> +++ b/read-cache.c
> @@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ static struct cache_entry *create_from_disk(struct mem_pool *ce_mem_pool,
>  	size_t len;
>  	const char *name;
>  	unsigned int flags;
> -	size_t copy_len;
> +	size_t copy_len = 0;
>  	/*
>  	 * Adjacent cache entries tend to share the leading paths, so it makes
>  	 * sense to only store the differences in later entries.  In the v4
> @@ -1786,8 +1786,6 @@ static struct cache_entry *create_from_disk(struct mem_pool *ce_mem_pool,
>  				die(_("malformed name field in the index, near path '%s'"),
>  					previous_ce->name);
>  			copy_len = previous_len - strip_len;
> -		} else {
> -			copy_len = 0;
>  		}
>  		name = (const char *)cp;
>  	}

Yes, this silences the compiler warning I saw (and is exactly the same
patch I wrote to get past it the other day ;) ).

-Peff



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