[cfe-dev] cfe-dev Digest, Vol 83, Issue 87

[Tim Toomay]

On 5/18/2014 2:31 PM, cfe-dev-request at cs.uiuc.edu wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 18:11:18 +0200
> From: Aitor San Juan<aitor.sj at opendeusto.es>
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> Let's consider the following:
> char *s = "string literal";
> char pwd[] = "password";
> char *p;
> *p = s; (1)*
> *p = pwd; (2)*
The first thing either statment does is to derefrence p, an unitialized 
pointer, by resolving the expression *p.  That gives you an lvalue or 
crashes.  You want to discover that p is uninitialized and warn I 
guess.  Sorry if I am stating the obvious.

-- Tim Toomay Toomay Technologies Inc www.ToomayTech.com *****