Re: widl: Set name return value (passed by reference) in the alias case alias case in get_user_type.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Gerald Pfeifer  writes:
> So, I admit I don't really know this code, but looking at it (triggered 
> by a warning issued by GCC development versions), I noticed that this 
> variable passed by reference is not initialized here.

It's initialized when we return a type, and it doesn't need to be
initialized on NULL return. The code is correct, but you could probably
set the variable to NULL in the caller to silence the warning.

widl: Set name return value (passed by reference) in the alias case alias case in get_user_type.

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > So, I admit I don't really know this code, but looking at it (triggered 
> > by a warning issued by GCC development versions), I noticed that this 
> > variable passed by reference is not initialized here.
>
> It's initialized when we return a type, and it doesn't need to be
> initialized on NULL return. The code is correct, but you could probably
> set the variable to NULL in the caller to silence the warning.

You were right, and I apologize for not following up on this one
back then so you ended up running into it yourself a bit later:

commit 68cfa7fd03a1ef9f65cc700ea50cfba2be09880f
  Author: Alexandre Julliard 
  Date:   Wed Aug 15 10:48:51 2018 +0200

widl: Silence a gcc warning.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard

Gerald

PS: This was (nearly) the last submission/discussion I had in my
Wine backlog; only one, two new patches left. ;-)