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RE: nightly test result of systemtap in ppc64
- From: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
- To: "Hien Nguyen" <hien at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: "SystemTAP" <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, "Nguyen, Thang P" <thang dot p dot nguyen at intel dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:18:07 -0700
- Subject: RE: nightly test result of systemtap in ppc64
On Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:02 AM, Hien Nguyen wrote:
> I initialized *ptr=NULL to get pass the compiler.
Sure, but I would like to know why that error was reported in the first
place. As far as I can see, there's no way for 'ptr' to be used
uninitialized. If I'm missing something, then your fix just means that
we'll induce a NULL dereference if there's a problem.
Josh