On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote:

On 10/13/2016 12:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:

The following workaround was suggested by upstream and seemed to do the
trick but upstream doesn't want to perform needless initialization on
platforms/arches that don't require it.

Why would it be arch-dependent whether or not a variable needs to be initialized?