New bootstrap failure in libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natStackTrace.cc

Thu Dec 5 02:44:00 GMT 2002

Kaveh R. Ghazi writes:
 > > From: Graham Stott <graham.stott@btinternet.com>
 > > 
 > > Hi Andrew,
 > > This doesn't look like it'll work to me because p won't be initialised
 > > unless HAVE_BACKSPACE is defined and we'll end up dereferencing an
 > > unitialised pointer on line 74.
We won't, because len will be zero.
 > Indeed. When I add the patch and recompile, I get:
 > 
 > > natStackTrace.cc:51: warning: `void**p' might be used uninitialized in this function
It won't, but the compiler doesn't know that. I'll do something to
fix the warning.
Andrew.