On a machine with gcc 12, I get this warning:
CXX nat/linux-btrace.o
In function ‘btrace_error linux_read_bts(btrace_data_bts*, btrace_target_info*, btrace_read_type)’,
inlined from ‘btrace_error linux_read_btrace(btrace_data*, btrace_target_info*, btrace_read_type)’ at ../gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c:935:29:
../gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c:865:21: warning: ‘data_head’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
865 | pevent->last_head = data_head;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~
../gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c: In function ‘btrace_error linux_read_btrace(btrace_data*, btrace_target_info*, btrace_read_type)’:
../gdb/nat/linux-btrace.c:792:9: note: ‘data_head’ was declared here
792 | __u64 data_head, data_tail;
| ^~~~~~~~~
Fix this by initializing the 'data_head' variable.
Tested by rebuilding on x86_64 openSUSE Tumbleweed with gcc 12.
struct perf_event_buffer *pevent;
const uint8_t *begin, *end, *start;
size_t buffer_size, size;
- __u64 data_head, data_tail;
+ __u64 data_head = 0, data_tail;
unsigned int retries = 5;
pevent = &tinfo->variant.bts.bts;