[PATCH 01/59] stdlib: Remove -Wmaybe-uninitialized supression on setenv.c

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Oct 21 10:57:47 GMT 2025



On 20/10/25 16:52, Sam James wrote:
> Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> It is not required on current supported gcc.
> 
> As a nit: for future things like this, I'd like it if we could refer to
> the commit which added it in the commit message (as well as tag any old
> bugs).

Fair enough, I will add it in future patches.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
>> ---
>>  stdlib/setenv.c | 14 ++------------
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/stdlib/setenv.c b/stdlib/setenv.c
>> index 0ef5dde373..2b8b6cafa0 100644
>> --- a/stdlib/setenv.c
>> +++ b/stdlib/setenv.c
>> @@ -21,14 +21,6 @@
>>  
>>  #include <assert.h>
>>  #include <setenv.h>
>> -
>> -/* Pacify GCC; see the commentary about VALLEN below.  This is needed
>> -   at least through GCC 4.9.2.  Pacify GCC for the entire file, as
>> -   there seems to be no way to pacify GCC selectively, only for the
>> -   place where it's needed.  Do not use DIAG_IGNORE_NEEDS_COMMENT
>> -   here, as it's not defined yet.  */
>> -#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wmaybe-uninitialized"
>> -
>>  #include <errno.h>
>>  #if !_LIBC
>>  # if !defined errno && !defined HAVE_ERRNO_DECL
>> @@ -147,10 +139,8 @@ __add_to_environ (const char *name, const char *value, const char *combined,
>>  {
>>    /* Compute lengths before locking, so that the critical section is
>>       less of a performance bottleneck.  VALLEN is needed only if
>> -     COMBINED is null (unfortunately GCC is not smart enough to deduce
>> -     this; see the #pragma at the start of this file).  Testing
>> -     COMBINED instead of VALUE causes setenv (..., NULL, ...)  to dump
>> -     core now instead of corrupting memory later.  */
>> +     COMBINED is null.  Testing COMBINED instead of VALUE causes setenv
>> +     (..., NULL, ...) to dump core now instead of corrupting memory later.  */
>>    const size_t namelen = strlen (name);
>>    size_t vallen;
>>    if (combined == NULL)



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