On 2010-08-30 14:46:57 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > int x = x; > > is the way GCC offers this idiom since about forever, no need for an > attribute. Downthread I see that people worry about this generating an > actual (uninitialized) access to x. They are confused.
This is not a good idea as "int x = x;" may really generate an (uninitialized) access to x with other compilers. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)