Re: Finding out parameters which are not written

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

>Gerhard Radatz <gerhard.radatz@aut.alcatel.at> writes:
<< Does anyone know about a tool which can detect such situations as the
   following:
  
        procedure xxx (result: out INTEGER) is
           begin
             if <<condition>> then
                 result := 0;
                end if;
           end;
  
   Obviously, this proc is erroneous and result will not be written if
   <<condition>> is FALSE.
   However, my Ada-Compiler (DEC-ADA for VMS) does not detect this problem,
   because result is written "at least once" in the body of xxx.
  
   Is there any tool which can provide help ??? >>


Using the standard version of GNAT with -Wuninitialized and -O2, we get

xxx.adb: In function `xxx':
xxx.adb:1: warning: `result' might be used uninitialized in this function

Not very localized, but better than not getting a warning at all!