On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

: > No, most ports don't use -Wuninitialized due to EGCS getting it wrong
: > some large amount of the time on the i386 and m68k ports.  but it seems
: > to be usually right on the MIPS.
: 
: Do we know in this particular case whether or not it was a false
: positive?  Until INET6, pmax kernels were building happily for a
: couple of months with this option.

Userland too?

This is blind luck.  Cygnus has openly admitted that egcs 1.1's
-Wuninitialized is flatly broken.

: FWIW, sparc64 seems to be the only other port that uses -Wuninitialized...

...and they quite obviously shouldn't until egcs 1.2.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)