[PATCH:libxtrans 4/4] Rename index & stat variables to stop gcc -Wshadow warnings
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Dec 6 11:17:14 PST 2011
On 12/06/11 02:21, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Alan Coopersmith<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
>> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 20:36:32 -0800
>>
>> It doesn't like local variables with the same name as system library
>> functions.
>
> Which IMHO is totally ridiculous and makes -Wshadow useless, since it
> means that any namespace pollution from system headers will result in
> warnings. The GCC developers acknowledged that and future GCC
> versions will not warn if the shadowed identifier is from a system
> header.
>
> I vote for not "fixing" this type of shadowing.
If they're fixing gcc, then that works for me, and I'll just ignore
these until then.
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