In commit b1cc6ba73 from earlier today, an error-handling path can now read an uninitialized variable.

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b1cc6ba73a51d5cc3aeb113b5e7378fb50a0e20a#diff-fa7f27df4c8df1055048e78340f904c4R695-R697

In particular, asdl_c.py is used to generate C source, and when building that code with Clang 10, there is the attached warning.

Likely fix: initialize `fields` to `NULL`. Also, perhaps a CI loop that has `-Werror=sometimes-uninitialized` would help detect these.

Compiler warning:

Python/Python-ast.c:1147:9: warning: variable 'fields' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
    if (state == NULL) {
        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
Python/Python-ast.c:1210:16: note: uninitialized use occurs here
    Py_XDECREF(fields);
               ^~~~~~
./Include/object.h:520:51: note: expanded from macro 'Py_XDECREF'
#define Py_XDECREF(op) _Py_XDECREF(_PyObject_CAST(op))
                                                  ^~
./Include/object.h:112:41: note: expanded from macro '_PyObject_CAST'
#define _PyObject_CAST(op) ((PyObject*)(op))
                                        ^~
Python/Python-ast.c:1147:5: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always false
    if (state == NULL) {
    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Python/Python-ast.c:1145:35: note: initialize the variable 'fields' to silence this warning
    PyObject *key, *value, *fields;
                                  ^
                                   = NULL
1 warning generated.

New changeset 1f76453173267887ed05bb3783e862cb22365ae8 by Victor Stinner in branch 'master':
bpo-41204: Fix compiler warning in ast_type_init() (GH-21307)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1f76453173267887ed05bb3783e862cb22365ae8

Thanks for the report, it's not fixed.

New changeset d2bea2636d5f0c2b196966315790af8e79c7bf82 by Victor Stinner in branch '3.9':
[3.9] bpo-41194: Convert _ast extension to PEP 489 (GH-21807)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d2bea2636d5f0c2b196966315790af8e79c7bf82