Re: [PATCH 1/3] ipc: avoid dereference of null pointer and quiet the GCC warning about uninitialized variable

[Richard Braun]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:40:09AM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> On 18.12.2013 11:34:03, Richard Braun wrote:
> > I don't get this warning, can you tell us how you configure GNU 
> > Mach ?
> 
> --enable-kdb --prefix=
> 
> But the warning is turned off by: 
> 
> ipc_port_t notify_port = 0;
> 
> in ipc/ipc_kmsg.c.
> 
> I don't think that's a good solution. I think something else is 
> happening here.

How can a local variable in ipc_kmsg.c have any effect on another local
variable in ipc_entry.c ??

-- 
Richard Braun