Re: "might be used uninitialized..." what?
Alf P. Steinbach schrieb:
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 );
// Line 1
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
[...]
What is it that the compiler sees that I don't see?
If the 'add' call throws an exception, 'id' will be uninitialized. The
code in the catch clause won't be reached, but it uses id. The compiler
might contain a bug, so that it wrongly traces the usage of id and
outputs this warning.
In your toy example, the add function does never throw, so the compiler
doesn't warn.
Of course, this is only a theory. You are free to prove or disprove it ;-)
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