From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:51:16 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perf events: Fix false positive build warning with older GCC's X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=55632770d7298835645489828af87f854c47749c;p=linux-beck.git perf events: Fix false positive build warning with older GCC's gcc 4.2.1 produces: util/probe-event.c: In function 'add_perf_probe_events': util/probe-event.c:883: warning: 'tev' may be used uninitialized in this function make: *** [util/probe-event.o] Error 1 Newer GCCs get this right. To work it around, initialize the variable to NULL so that older GCCs see it as initialized too. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20100316220612.32050.33806.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index f33326980583..c6603f3bb430 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ static void __add_kprobe_trace_events(struct perf_probe_event *pev, int ntevs, bool allow_suffix) { int i, fd; - struct kprobe_trace_event *tev; + struct kprobe_trace_event *tev = NULL; char buf[64]; const char *event, *group; struct strlist *namelist;