“A recent string of patches posted to the lkml attempted to
clean up compiler warnings, and lead to numerous discussions about
the appropriate way to fix warnings. One thread discussed a warning
caused by what the compiler inappropriately believed was an
unitialized variable, to which Alan Cox replied, ‘hiding warnings
like this can be a hazard as it will hide real warnings later on.’
He went on to suggest the warning was a good thing as it encourages
developers to continue to review the code, ‘while the warning is
present people will check it now and again…'”
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