Address -Wuninitialized-const-pointer with Clang 21 #2155
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Clang 21 was released on 2025-08-26. It seems to have made improvements to its
-Wuninitializeddiagnostics, which now flag this piece of code:where the
BCONE_DECIMAL128(val)expands into:and
bcon_ensure_const_decimal128_ptrhas parameter typeconst bson_decimal128_t *:The diagnostic reasonably assumes the
Tin aT const*parameter will be read-from. This is not the case here:bcon_ensure_*is just performing an existence check. However, this is nevertheless triggering our unconditional-Werror=uninitializedflag:mongo-c-driver/build/cmake/MongoC-Warnings.cmake
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