Jed Davis wrote:

> If a value is potentially used uninitialized, GCC should be able to
> catch that, given the right flags.  Are we not doing that here?

"should" is the operative word here.  GCC's uninitialised variable
detection isn't perfect, and even gives different results depending
on the target architecture.

Simon.
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