gcc warns about unitialized memory access because it notices that ssize_t which
is < 0 could be cast to positive int value. We know that this can't really
happen because only -1 can be returned, but OTOH, in principle a large
*positive* value cannot be cast properly. This is unlikely too, since xattrs
cannot be too large, but it seems cleaner to just use a size_t to return the
value and avoid the cast altoghter. This makes the code simpler and gcc is
happy too.
The following warning goes away:
[113/1502] Compiling C object 'src/basic/basic@sta/xattr-util.c.o'.
In file included from ../src/basic/alloc-util.h:28:0,
from ../src/basic/xattr-util.c:30:
../src/basic/xattr-util.c: In function ‘fd_getcrtime_at’:
../src/basic/macro.h:207:60: warning: ‘b’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
UNIQ_T(A,aq) < UNIQ_T(B,bq) ? UNIQ_T(A,aq) : UNIQ_T(B,bq); \
^
../src/basic/xattr-util.c:155:19: note: ‘b’ was declared here
usec_t a, b;
^