Uninitialized Memory Access
Occurs when a read of an uninitialized memory location is reported.
ID | Code Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
1 | Allocation site | If present, represents the location and associated call stack from which the memory block containing the offending address was allocated. |
2 | Read | Represents the instruction and associated call stack responsible for the uninitialized access. If no allocation is associated with this problem, the memory address might be in uninitialized stack space. The offset, if shown in the Code Locations pane, represents the byte offset into the allocated buffer where the Uninitialized memory access occurred. |
C Examples
Heap example:
char* pStr = (char*) malloc(20); char c = pStr[0]; // the contents of pStr were not initialized
Stack example (set
Analyze stack accesses
to Yes when you configure the analysis): void func() { int a; int b = a * 4; // read of uninitialized variable a }
Fortran Examples
Heap example:
integer, allocatable :: a(:) integer :: b allocate( a(10) ) b = a(1) * 4
Stack example (set
Analyze stack accesses
to Yes when you configure the analysis): integer :: a, b b = a * 4
Buffers created by system calls linking processes to shared memory are flagged as allocated memory, which means the
Intel Inspector
does not report an Uninitialized memory access
on these buffers.