Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Patch to fix broken compilation

[Florent Drouin <florent.drouin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using gcc 3.3.5
This is the default C compiler for an old Debian Sarge distribution.

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gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Florent Drouin wrote:
> [...]
>   
> > generic_decoder.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/mac_hd_generic_decoder.o
> > mac_hd_generic_decoder.c: In function `dissect_mac_header_generic_decoder':
> > mac_hd_generic_decoder.c:1493: warning: `payload_length' might be used 
> > uninitialized in this function
> > mac_hd_generic_decoder.c:1502: warning: `new_payload_len' might be used 
> > uninitialized in this function
> > make[3]: *** [mac_hd_generic_decoder.lo] Error 1
> >     
>
> My GCC (3.4.4) is either smarter or stupider than yours because it 
> doesn't warn on those.  After taking a brief look it appears the 
> warnings are false positives--I checked in your change (rev 22401).
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