Re: Potential incorrect simplification

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On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6 August 2017 at 18:45, Luc Van Oostenryck
> <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
>> <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't have thought so - as the variable is not initialized at the
>>> point of declaration. The assignment occurs after declaring the struct
>>> variable s3.
>>
>> IIRC, this patch was written specifically for the case you reported here.
>>
>>> I haven't tried that patch though.
>>
>> You'll need the full series:
>> https://github.com/lucvoo/sparse/tree/fix-bitfield-init-v3
>>
>
> I will have a look at it. I did report separately the issue of not
> zeroing out structs when they are initialized and the change you
> mentioned earlier looks more for addressing that issue.

Indeed.
I mixed up both (or more exactly, I thought it solved both).

-- Luc
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