Re: Using -Wshadow - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Using -Wshadow
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0311242150040.21306-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Using -Wshadow  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway writes:

> The problem with #2 is the large number of warnings induced by system
> headers: other platforms / standard libraries may well cause
> additional instances of shadowing, so it might take a little while to
> track down all the spurious warnings.

Yes, that's what I'm afraid of.  We might be chasing warnings forever.
I'm not sure what the point is anyway.  Shadowing is perfectly
well-defined and I've never heard of a real problem because of it.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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