[cfe-dev] [RFC] automatic variable initialization

[Richard Smith via cfe-dev]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 07:25, via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> > Suggested compromise technique to at least get an initial set of numbers:
> >
> > 1) Require a special, long, ugly flag name.
> > 2) Make it a CC1 flag, requiring -Xclang ... to use.
> > 3) Emit a warning by default (that cannot be suppressed with a -Wno-...
> > flag) when this flag is enabled.
>
> And immune to -Werror I think?
>

We generally use remarks for "diagnostic that cannot be promoted to an
error" cases. Would that make sense here?


> > 4) Commit to never including this flag in any upstream release. Either we
> > remove it before the next release branches or we revert it on the branch.
>

Thank you Chandler, I think this is a very reasonable plan.

Points 3 and 4 would significantly reduce my desire for points 1 and 2 :)
Just an (on-by-default with no -R flag)

remark: flag -fzero-all-uninitialized-variables is for performance
measurements only and will not be included in any Clang release

(and actually carrying through on that) would be sufficient to address all
of my concerns.
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