Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:13:14 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] -Wshadow: Making the kernel build clean with -Wshadow |
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On 10/07/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 09:03 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > 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... > One little twist here is that if I end up going through all the current warnings to clean them up then once I know that ratio I'll have already done all the cleanup work, so whatever the bugs/noise ratio turns out to be, all the work will already be done and then (from my point of view) we might as well do it ;-)
More seriously; I'll try and sift through the pile I have at the moment and pick out those that look like real bugs, then we can look at that and see if it's worth-while... In any case, even if there are only very few real bugs (or even none) I'm still full willing to do the work to help us protect against future bugs.
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