Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> This patch silences a GCC 4.0 warning about a potentially-uninitialized
> variable in pl_comp.c,
AFAICT, gcc4's default behavior is to warn about
int foo;
somefunc(&foo);
which unfortunately is a very common usage that I'm not real thrilled
about having to fix every occurrence of. I've been meaning to look into
whether they provided a pragma or something to mark function parameters
as output-only, so that this message could be suppressed where
appropriate without adding a lot of useless initializations.
In the meantime, I don't see the point of patching just one place.
regards, tom lane