Silence -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning in minsyms.c:lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section
Compiling with GCC 8.1 shows this warning:
gdb/minsyms.c: In function 'bound_minimal_symbol lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section(CORE_ADDR, obj_section*, lookup_msym_prefer)':
gdb/minsyms.c:825:40: warning: 'want_type' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
&& MSYMBOL_TYPE (&msymbol[hi]) != want_type
That warning is a false positive, because the switch that converts
enum lookup_msym_prefer values to enum enum minimal_symbol_type values
has a case for every lookup_msym_prefer enumerator:
switch (prefer)
{
case lookup_msym_prefer::TEXT:
want_type = mst_text;
break;
case lookup_msym_prefer::TRAMPOLINE:
want_type = mst_solib_trampoline;
break;
case lookup_msym_prefer::GNU_IFUNC:
want_type = mst_text_gnu_ifunc;
break;
}
The problem is that GCC assumes that enum variables may hold values
other than the named enumerators (like e.g., "lookup_msym_prefer
prefer = (lookup_msym_prefer) 10;").
Rework the code a bit, adding a gdb_assert to make it explicit to the
compiler that want_type is initialized in all normal-return paths.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-06-19 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* minsyms.c (msym_prefer_to_msym_type): New, factored out from ...
(lookup_minimal_symbol_by_pc_section): ... here with
gdb_assert_not_reached added.