thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Poyo VL wrote:
> This is not a problem, it is a simple fix for an ugly compiler warning. When I
> tried to cimpile, I got the following warning:
> drivers/acpi/acpica/nsrepair.c: In function âacpi_ns_repair_objectâ:
> drivers/acpi/acpica/nsrepair.c:125:29: warning: ânew_objectâ may be used
> uninitialized in this function
> new_object is declared without being initialized. It is initialized in a
> conditional expression like if (expected_btypes & ACPI_RTYPE_INTEGER) so the
> compiler can't be sure that it will be used initialized, and it throws that
> warning.
> Just have to initialize new_object which is a pointer with NULL.
I don't see this warning.
What version of the compiler are you using?
thanks,
-Len
> Patch:
>
> Signed-off-by: Ionut Gabriel Popescu <poyo_vl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsrepair.c 2010-09-20 08:35:56.568006487 +0300
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsrepair.c 2010-09-20 08:00:40.000000000 +0300
> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ acpi_ns_repair_object(struct acpi_predef
> union acpi_operand_object **return_object_ptr)
> {
> union acpi_operand_object *return_object = *return_object_ptr;
> - union acpi_operand_object *new_object;
> + union acpi_operand_object *new_object = NULL;
> acpi_status status;
>
> ACPI_FUNCTION_NAME(ns_repair_object);
>
