In article <20051018093828.GA19887@localhost.localdomain>,
Jaka Jejcic  <jj@gnorw.net> wrote:
>Maybe you will all find this ridiculous but I find myself
>adding '= 0' or '= NULL' to many of the files and many of
>the variables each time I build the source tree just to
>get it compiled, because the build fails for uninitialized vars.
>
>Am I doing something wrong? If not, why aren't those vars set to
>some appropriate value?

You are probably compiling without optimization and the compiler
does not do the necessary control flow analysis to find that those
variables don't need to be initialized.

christos