From 1dacfee21a7c524f31acee9ea4dea4862fa43b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:34:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (decode_field_spec): Add an abort after `error (EXIT_FAILURE, ...' to avoid a gcc warning in caller, about variables being used uninitialized. --- src/join.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/join.c b/src/join.c index a1c1f4adac..8f44612062 100644 --- a/src/join.c +++ b/src/join.c @@ -664,6 +664,12 @@ decode_field_spec (const char *s, int *file_index, size_t *field_index) default: error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid file number in field spec: %s"), quote (s)); + + /* Tell gcc -W -Wall that we can't get beyond this point. + This avoids a warning (otherwise legit) that the caller's copies + of *file_index and *field_index might be used uninitialized. */ + abort (); + break; } } -- 2.47.3