[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 22/25] mlx5: work around spurious compilation errors

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
> From: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> 
> Since commit "mlx5: resurrect Tx gather support", older GCC versions (such
> as 4.8.5) may complain about the following:
> 
>  mlx5_rxtx.c: In function `mlx5_tx_burst':
>  mlx5_rxtx.c:705:25: error: `wqe' may be used uninitialized in this
>      function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
>  mlx5_rxtx.c: In function `mlx5_tx_burst_inline':
>  mlx5_rxtx.c:864:25: error: `wqe' may be used uninitialized in this
>      function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> 
> In both cases, this code cannot be reached when wqe is not initialized.
> 
> Considering older GCC versions are still widely used, work around this
> issue by initializing wqe preemptively, even if it should not be necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>

Since the previous patch is known to break the build on older compilers, I think
it would be better to merge this patch into the previous to prevent the break
from occurring in the first place. That will help with any future git-bisects
that people run.

If there is no objection, and no other issues appear requiring a new rev of
this patchset, I'll merge patches 21 and 22 on apply.

Regards,
/Bruce