arm: uninitialised exp.X_op
Project / Subsystem
binutils / arm
Date
2026-08-11
Proposer
Alan Modra
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Addresses an immediate correctness issue with minimal code change.
- • Defers a potentially larger refactoring of error handling to maintainers.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- arm
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- anpmjFuksL3g7r8d@squeak.grove.modra.org
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- arm: uninitialised exp.X_op
- headline
- arm: uninitialised exp.X_op
- tldr
- Alan Modra fixes an uninitialized variable issue in binutils' ARM gas assembler.
- proposer
- Alan Modra
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Addresses an immediate correctness issue with minimal code change.
- • Defers a potentially larger refactoring of error handling to maintainers.
- series_id
- —
- series_role
- standalone
- series_parts
- []
- tags
-
- • binutils
- • arm
- • gas
- • assembler
- • initialization
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z
arm: uninitialised exp.X_op
Alan Modra proposes a fix for an uninitialized exp.X_op variable within the my_get_expression function in binutils’ ARM gas assembler configuration. While the immediate fix is applied, Modra suggests that a more thorough review of my_get_expression’s return status testing is warranted but defers that larger task to ARM maintainers.