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build: warn on potentially uninitialized reads
Enable -Wconditional-uninitialized to warn on potentially uninitialized reads. Fix the sole such warning in Bitcoin Core in GetRdRand(): r1 would be set to 0 on rdrand failure, so initializing it to 0 is a non-functional change. From "Intel 64 and IA-32 ArchitecturesSoftware Developer's Manual" [1], page 1711: "CF=1 indicates that the data in the destination is valid. Otherwise CF=0 and the data in the destination operand will be returned as zeros for the specified width." [1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd.pdf
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configure.ac

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@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ if test "x$enable_werror" = "xyes"; then
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=unused-variable],[ERROR_CXXFLAGS="$ERROR_CXXFLAGS -Werror=unused-variable"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=date-time],[ERROR_CXXFLAGS="$ERROR_CXXFLAGS -Werror=date-time"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=return-type],[ERROR_CXXFLAGS="$ERROR_CXXFLAGS -Werror=return-type"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Werror=conditional-uninitialized],[ERROR_CXXFLAGS="$ERROR_CXXFLAGS -Werror=conditional-uninitialized"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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fi
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if test "x$CXXFLAGS_overridden" = "xno"; then
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wredundant-decls],[WARN_CXXFLAGS="$WARN_CXXFLAGS -Wredundant-decls"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wunused-variable],[WARN_CXXFLAGS="$WARN_CXXFLAGS -Wunused-variable"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wdate-time],[WARN_CXXFLAGS="$WARN_CXXFLAGS -Wdate-time"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wconditional-uninitialized],[WARN_CXXFLAGS="$WARN_CXXFLAGS -Wconditional-uninitialized"],,[[$CXXFLAG_WERROR]])
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dnl Some compilers (gcc) ignore unknown -Wno-* options, but warn about all
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dnl unknown options if any other warning is produced. Test the -Wfoo case, and

src/Makefile.leveldb.include

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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ LEVELDB_CPPFLAGS_INT += -DLEVELDB_PLATFORM_POSIX
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endif
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leveldb_libleveldb_a_CPPFLAGS = $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(LEVELDB_CPPFLAGS_INT) $(LEVELDB_CPPFLAGS)
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leveldb_libleveldb_a_CXXFLAGS = $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(PIE_FLAGS)
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leveldb_libleveldb_a_CXXFLAGS = $(filter-out -Wconditional-uninitialized -Werror=conditional-uninitialized, $(AM_CXXFLAGS)) $(PIE_FLAGS)
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leveldb_libleveldb_a_SOURCES=
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leveldb_libleveldb_a_SOURCES += leveldb/port/port_stdcxx.h

src/random.cpp

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@@ -116,7 +116,10 @@ static uint64_t GetRdRand() noexcept
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// RdRand may very rarely fail. Invoke it up to 10 times in a loop to reduce this risk.
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#ifdef __i386__
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uint8_t ok;
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uint32_t r1, r2;
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// Initialize to 0 to silence a compiler warning that r1 or r2 may be used
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// uninitialized. Even if rdrand fails (!ok) it will set the output to 0,
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// but there is no way that the compiler could know that.
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uint32_t r1 = 0, r2 = 0;
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for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
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__asm__ volatile (".byte 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xf0; setc %1" : "=a"(r1), "=q"(ok) :: "cc"); // rdrand %eax
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if (ok) break;
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return (((uint64_t)r2) << 32) | r1;
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#elif defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__amd64__)
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uint8_t ok;
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uint64_t r1;
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uint64_t r1 = 0; // See above why we initialize to 0.
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for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
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__asm__ volatile (".byte 0x48, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xf0; setc %1" : "=a"(r1), "=q"(ok) :: "cc"); // rdrand %rax
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if (ok) break;

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