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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] -Wshadow: Making the kernel build clean with -Wshadow
On 10/07/06, 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.
>
For the parts I've done so far, the only "real" issue is one case of a
superfluous variable. But I'm far from done going through all the
warnings.

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