To deal with the gcc warnings have

	int var;
#ifndef NO_WINITIALISED_GCC_PROBLEM
	var=0
#endif

	Then if you want to run purify or similar you just define
	'NO_W....'
	Alternatively you could do it on '#ifdef __GCC2'...
	This make it easy to untaint the source tree if gcc is
	'fixed' on this.

	I think -Wuninitialised is a real win, and should be taken
	advantage of, without needing to permenantly pollute the
	source tree with irrelevant definitions. (IMHO :)

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On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, J.T. Conklin wrote:

> > I had to commmit a bit of evil to avoid a similar warning in some other
> > code on the sparc...If you initialize the variable with "0" or whatever
> > before it's used, the warning will go away...
>
> Yuck.
>
> In the process, you've managed to remove the ability for a purify like
> tool to detect an uninitialized variable reference at run time.
> (NetBSD might not have such at tool now, but I wouldn't count it out).
>
> 	--jtc
>