> 
> I'm trying to compile a kernel on the mac with -Wall -Werror
> -Wstrict-prototypes and -Wmissing-prototypes (copied from Makefile.sparc).
> I can't, however, get past nfs_serv.c and nfs_socket.c because
> gcc complains:
> 
> ../../../../nfs/nfs_socket.c: In function `nfs_timer':
> ../../../../nfs/nfs_socket.c:1243: warning: `cur_usec' might be used uninitialized in this function
> 
> (the warning in nfs/nfs_serv.c was for a variable of the same name)
> As far as I can tell by looking at the code, this is a completely bogus
> warning.  Has anyone else run across this?  Does anyone know enough
> about gcc to know how this might be happening?  Could it be related to
> the fact that cur_usec is a u_quad_t?
> 
I haven't checked the code you mention but this is usually due to
some logic flow in the code that the compiler can't easy detect.

Somewhat stupid coding example:

int foo()
{
        int f, x;

        for(f = 0; f < 10; f++) {
                if(f == 0)
                        x=1;
                x= x+x;
                x = fun(x);
        }
        return x;
}

x shure get initialized and the code will work but gcc warns...

i've seen this with other compilers than gcc too.