Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/10/10 10:24, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Without this, I'd get >> >> cc1: warnings being treated as errors >> tr.c: In function 'main': >> tr.c:1400: warning: 'char_to_repeat' may be used uninitialized in this >> function > > There must have been some limitation with my compiler > gcc (GCC) 4.4.1 20090725 (Red Hat 4.4.1-2) > as it seems fairly obvious a warning should have > been issued here.
I haven't investigated, but it may be that the above was merely evidence that the older compiler, gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48) lacked the "knowledge" that error (1, ... always exits, while the newer ones that you and I use already know about that.
