Re: "might be used uninitialized..." what?

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<6d7017d6-90be-4662-829e-a31367b727ca@k26g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 29, 10:27 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

It's possible that I'm blind on both eyes.

After all, it's late in the day (or morning) for me.

But, I have this code which adds a string to a list of
strings:

    virtual cppx::Index add(
        cppx::WideString const& s, cppx::WideString const& data
        )
    {
        int const id = myStrings.add( data );

        try
        {
            return Base::basicAdd( s, id );
        }
        catch( ... )
        {
            myStrings.remove( id );
            throw;
        }
    }

Compiling with g++ 3.4.5, options (copy/paste from the IDE's
build log)

  -Wall -O -pedantic -Wall -g -O -pedantic -Wall -std=c++98
-Wno-long-long -Wwrite-strings

the compiler complains that

    warning: 'id' might be used uninitialized in this function


How can a const int be uninitialised?


How can any variable whose definition contains an initializer be
used uninitialised?

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