From: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 06:51:39 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Silence a gcc "may be used uninitialized" compiler warning.  Not true.
X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0b1~285
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f789465eed2d9127fb60baad6f19f18714a604cc;p=python

Silence a gcc "may be used uninitialized" compiler warning.  Not true.
Initializing retval prevents the naive warning.
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diff --git a/Python/pystrhex.c b/Python/pystrhex.c
index a20e30747b..1259ed12df 100644
--- a/Python/pystrhex.c
+++ b/Python/pystrhex.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ static PyObject *_Py_strhex_impl(const char* argbuf, const Py_ssize_t arglen,
         retbuf = (Py_UCS1*) PyMem_Malloc(arglen*2);
 	if (!retbuf)
 	    return PyErr_NoMemory();
+        retval = NULL;  /* silence a compiler warning, assigned later. */
     } else {
 	retval = PyUnicode_New(arglen*2, 127);
 	if (!retval)