On 5/18/23 15:09, Bruno Haible wrote:
Some time ago, a distro guy explained on this list that IF_LINT does not help in their situation, because the distro wants to build each package once, with the settings that produce the best code, _and_ have the compiler report warnings for this situation.
Yes, that's the typical situation.
How about the following patches? They replace two uses of IF_LINT with #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wmaybe-uninitialized". The loss for reliability is small: it silences the "maybe uninitialized" findings for an entire function, instead of just for one variable. The upside is that it removes the warning on glibc systems and thereby helps the human developer (me) focusing on real warnings produced by gcc.
Yes, that's OK. As you say, the loss for reliability is small that way.
