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On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> It would be a very Bad Idea (tm) for GCC to flag those cases, since
> they are widely used to shut up compiler warnings about variables
> which the compiler things are used before they are initialized.
> (Compilers can err about this because they don't understand what
> range of values can certain variables have, and thus don't know what
> conditions could fire under what circumstances.)

out of curiosity, could you give some examples of occasions you'd need to
use that technique?

Thanks
DSK