Bug 133120

Summary: local variable used before set
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Binderman <dcb314>
Component: sane-backendsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description David Binderman 2004-09-21 19:23:28 UTC
Description of problem:

I just tried to compile package sane-backends-1.0.14-2 from
Redhat Fedora Core 3 Test 1.

The compiler said

umax_pp_low.c(5982): remark #592: variable "j" is used before its
value is set

The source code is

      j++;

Suggest init j before first use



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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-09-27 16:41:46 UTC
Not worth fixing: j is never used in that function, and so the
compiler more than likely optimizes this dead code out entirely.

Comment 2 David Binderman 2004-10-02 18:26:28 UTC
>the compiler more than likely ...

It is not entirely clear to me that this is a
suitable guess at what gcc does.

Much safer to avoid writing undefined code than just
guess the compiler does something sensible with it.

It seems worth fixing to me.