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Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:47:55 +0100
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On 7/1/22 14:38, Thomas Huth wrote:
If I configure my build with --enable-sanitizers, my GCC (v8.5.0)
complains:

.../softmmu/device_tree.c: In function ‘qemu_fdt_add_path’:
.../softmmu/device_tree.c:560:18: error: ‘retval’ may be used uninitialized
  in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
      int namelen, retval;
                   ^~~~~~

It's a false warning since the while loop is always executed at least
once (p has to be non-NULL, otherwise the derefence in the if-statement
earlier will crash). Thus let's switch to a do-while loop here instead
to make the compiler happy in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
  softmmu/device_tree.c | 4 ++--
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>



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