Old GCC (4.1) does not see through the code flow of parse_proc_kallsyms() and gets confused about the status of 'fmt': util/trace-event-parse.c: In function ‘parse_proc_kallsyms’: util/trace-event-parse.c:189: warning: ‘fmt’ may be used uninitialized in this function make: *** [util/trace-event-parse.o] Error 1 Help out GCC by initializing 'fmt' to NULL. Thanks, Ingo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c index fe7a27d..e9e1c03 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ void parse_proc_kallsyms(struct pevent *pevent, char *next = NULL; char *addr_str; char *mod; - char *fmt; + char *fmt = NULL; line = strtok_r(file, "\n", &next); while (line) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html