Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-compress: avoid false-positive Wuninitialized warning

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:35:43PM +0800, Rong Chen wrote:

gcc-6.5 and earlier show a new warning:

sound/soc/soc-compress.c: In function ‘soc_compr_open’: sound/soc/soc-compress.c:75:28: warning: ‘component’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] struct snd_soc_component *component, *save = NULL; ^~~~~~~~~

Simplest fix is to initialize it to avoid the warning.

This doesn't apply against current code, please check and resend. TBH I'm not 100% sure the benefit here is worth it, this is a very old compiler and it seems like a bug in the compiler.