Re: [PATCH 00/12] making the kernel -Wshadow clean - The initial step

[Arnd Bergmann]

Am Sunday 30 July 2006 20:29 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> While I don't recall any kernel bugs which -Wshadow would have saved us
> from, I think it's a sensible thing to do - it _might_ save us from a bug,
> and we need all the help we can get.

One case where it would have helped in the past is jiffies -- when
experimenting with tickless systems, turning the global jiffies
variable into a macro comes in handy, but that breaks all functions
that have a local variable with the same name.

	Arnd <><
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