Re: [Qemu-devel] Build broken

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 05.08.2011 08:22, schrieb malc:
> 
> /home/malc/x/rcs/git/qemuorg/coroutine-ucontext.c: In function 'coroutine_new':
> /home/malc/x/rcs/git/qemuorg/coroutine-ucontext.c:160:16: error: 'arg.i[1]' may be used uninitialized in this function
> /home/malc/x/rcs/git/qemuorg/coroutine-ucontext.c:136:18: note: 'arg.i[1]' was declared here
> 
> diff --git a/coroutine-ucontext.c b/coroutine-ucontext.c
> index 41c2379..42dc3e2 100644
> --- a/coroutine-ucontext.c
> +++ b/coroutine-ucontext.c
> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static Coroutine *coroutine_new(void)
>      CoroutineUContext *co;
>      ucontext_t old_uc, uc;
>      jmp_buf old_env;
> -    union cc_arg arg;
> +    union cc_arg arg = {0};
>  
>      /* The ucontext functions preserve signal masks which incurs a system call
>       * overhead.  setjmp()/longjmp() does not preserve signal masks but only
> 
> I guess gcc should yell not only here on ppc32 but on any machine where
> pointer size is less than the size of two ints.

Stefan, why does this code even exist again? I think at some point I had
it changed to just use a static variable in order to avoid doing this
kind of tricks with unions.

Interestingly, the buildbot doesn't seem to have failed on i386.

Kevin