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From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io
Cc: lersek@redhat.com, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] OvmfPkg/X86QemuLoadImageLib: add dummy assignment to work around GCC
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:12:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325091238.24048-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> (raw)

GCC 4.8 or 4.9 may throw the following error when building OVMF:

  Edk2/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c:
      In function ‘QemuLoadKernelImage’:
  Edk2/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c:416:30:
      error: ‘CommandLine’ may be used uninitialized in this function
                                               [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
        UnicodeSPrintAsciiFormat (
        cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

This is due to the fact that older GCCs fail to infer that CommandLine is
never actually used unless it has been assigned. So add a redundant NULL
assignment to help these older GCCs understand this.

Link: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2630
Fixes: 7c47d89003a6f ("OvmfPkg: implement QEMU loader library for X86 with ...")
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
 OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c b/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c
index c5bd6862b265..52b14a4462d8 100644
--- a/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c
+++ b/OvmfPkg/Library/X86QemuLoadImageLib/X86QemuLoadImageLib.c
@@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ QemuLoadKernelImage (
   CHAR8                     *CommandLine;
   UINTN                     InitrdSize;
 
+  //
+  // Redundant assignment to work around GCC48/GCC49 limitations.
+  //
+  CommandLine = NULL;
+
   //
   // Load the image. This should call back into the QEMU EFI loader file system.
   //
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-03-25  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-25  9:12 Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2020-03-25 19:08 ` [edk2-devel] [PATCH] OvmfPkg/X86QemuLoadImageLib: add dummy assignment to work around GCC Laszlo Ersek
2020-03-26  8:10   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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