Re: [PATCH] Fix maybe-uninitialized warnings found by gcc 9 -flto

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:

The loop count is either 1 or argv[1] interpreted as a number, i.e. it could
be very high.  Its body consists of an index load and writing a number to a
file, though -- a strlen() call on the name of that file should go unnoticed
amid that activity.  (I didn't measure it, though.)

Yup, I didn't either but we reasoned along the same line.