>> Would you like to clarify any measurable effects around the implementation >> detail when various variables will only be initialised immediately >> before they will be read again? > > Compiler will drop this variable initialization by itself because > there are no reads between this variable initialization and write. Which compiler variants would you to take into account for such an use case? > I recommend you to take a look on the assembly code and ensure it > by yourself. Will any configuration parameters and command arguments become relevant to improve also a corresponding software comparison? > The proposed change won't affect performance at all. Will unneeded variable assignments be really optimised away by default? By the way: Will a small source code reduction matter also a bit here? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
