There are two levels of uninitialized analysis in gcc:

• -Wuninitialized: flags variables that are certainly used uninitialized
• -Wmaybe-uninitialized: flags variables that are potentially used uninitialized

In gcc (*), -Wall turns on both levels even though the latter has spurious warnings because the analysis is imperfect. Spurious warnings are a plague, so the simplest way to avoid them is to pass -Wno-maybe-uninitialized (after -Wall).

If you still want the warnings, but not have them cause build failure (through -Werror) you can white list them using -Wno-error=maybe-uninitialized.

(*) Clang does not activate -Wmaybe-uninitialized by default precisely because it’s very imprecise and has a good number of false positives; I wish gcc followed this guideline too.