[Bug binutils/15417] New: elflink.c does not compile on HPUX-11.23 ia64

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             Bug #: 15417
           Summary: elflink.c does not compile on HPUX-11.23 ia64
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.23
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden
    Classification: Unclassified


Created attachment 7009
  --> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7009
Initialize idx to zero

While compiling binultils 2.23.2 with a gcc-3.4.6 I got an Warning, turned into
an error by -Werror

While looking at the source I did not see why in some corner case "sym_count"
could not be zero somehow, skipping the initialization of idx.

So I propose a tiny patch...



make[4]: Entering directory
`/net/olympic/fs2/scr/olympic/flebbe/binutils-2.23.2-1/ARENA/32/bfd'
/usr/local/bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE    -I.
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/../include 
-DHAVE_bfd_elf32_ia64_hpux_big_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf64_ia64_hpux_big_vec
-DHAVE_bfd_elf64_little_generic_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf64_big_generic_vec
-DHAVE_bfd_elf32_little_generic_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf32_big_generic_vec
-I./../intl -DBINDIR='"/usr/local/bin"'  -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -MT elflink.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/elflink.Tpo -c -o elflink.lo
/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/elflink.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -I.
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd
-I/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/../include
-DHAVE_bfd_elf32_ia64_hpux_big_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf64_ia64_hpux_big_vec
-DHAVE_bfd_elf64_little_generic_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf64_big_generic_vec
-DHAVE_bfd_elf32_little_generic_vec -DHAVE_bfd_elf32_big_generic_vec
-I./../intl -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\" -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -MT elflink.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/elflink.Tpo -c /soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/elflink.c
-o elflink.o
/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/elflink.c: In function
`bfd_elf_link_add_symbols':
/soft/os/gcc/binutils-2.23.2/binutils-2.23.2/bfd/elflink.c:4726: warning: 'idx'
might be used uninitialized in this function
gmake[4]: *** [elflink.lo] Error 1

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