new warning?

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From: Brendan Kehoe
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 10:45

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I think -Wuninitialized should generate a warning with the code below.
It'd be along the lines of cases where there've been no actions upon an
indirect_ref before it's dereferenced for the first time.

	foo()
	{
	  char *bar;
	  *bar = 'a';
	}

This occurred to me when a beginning programmer asked me why his
program didn't work; I think it's a very common error.

--
Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager                      brendan@cs.widener.edu
Widener University                                                 Chester, PA

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