Re: [lwip-users] use of struct timeval in sys_jiffies, UNIX port

[Kieran Mansley]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 16:37 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> My compiler complained about tv.tv_sec being used before it was
> initialized, and upon inspection I must say I don't really understand
> what is happening.
> 
> Depending on the compiler, isn't the value of tv_sec at best
> initialized to zero, otherwise unpredictable? And the result from  
> gettimeofday is not used for anything?
> 
>   From sys_arch.c, UNIX port, latest version in CVS.
> 
> unsigned long
> sys_jiffies(void)
> {
>       struct timeval tv;
>       unsigned long sec = tv.tv_sec;
>       long usec = tv.tv_usec;
> 
>       gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);

I agree that this looks wrong.  Should be a straightforward thing to fix
though.  Could you file a bug?

Thanks

Kieran