Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] -Wshadow: Making the kernel build clean with -Wshadow | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:06:31 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:03 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On 7/10/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > > So, what do people say? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm just about always in favor of having automated tools help us find > > bugs. However... can you give an indication of how many real bugs you > > have encountered? If it's "mostly noise" all the time.. then it's maybe > > not worth the effort... while if you find real bugs then it's obviously > > worthwhile to go through this. > > > > While we may not have any issues with the present code it can help > avoiding problems in new code if we have -Wshadow by default.
I agree with that; however that still depends on the ratio of real bugs vs "noise". While it's hard to estimate for future code, the existing code base can be an indication...
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