On Wed, Jul 09, 2025 at 11:49:55AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not sure. Yesterday I saw such warnings from arowana,
> boa, dhole, rhinoceros, and shelduck, eg
>
> arowana | 2025-07-08 04:54:18 | xpath.c:274:6: warning: 'workspace' may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> arowana | 2025-07-08 04:54:18 | xpath.c:319:6: warning: 'workspace' may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> arowana | 2025-07-08 04:54:18 | xpath.c:374:6: warning: 'workspace' may be used uninitialized in this function
[-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> arowana | 2025-07-08 04:54:18 | ../../src/include/postgres.h:329:2: warning: 'result' may be used
uninitializedin this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>
> Didn't look to try to figure out what the common factor
> among these machines is, but I think all of them are somewhat
> dated, which is depressing. You'd hope that newer compilers
> are more likely to find such issues, not less likely.
They are all using some gcc 4.X flavor, most with -O2 but not all.
And -Wmaybe-uninitialized is included in my default switches with a
gcc 14, and there is nothing with several levels of optimizations
applied, up to -O3. :(
--
Michael
