Re: [PATCH tip 1/1] perf record: Fix typo inpid_synthesize_comm_event

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:07:11PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx escreveu:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:26:32 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo said:
> > > We were using 'fd' locally, but there was a global 'fd' too, so when
> > > converting from open to fopen the test made against fd should be made
> > > against 'fp', but since we have that global...
> > 
> > If the kernel was -Wshadow safe by default, this sort of thing 
> > would happen less often... :)
> 
> I would love to have that kind of problem spotted by the compiler, 
> but this is no kernel code, the CFLAGS we use is different than 
> the kernel ones, I guess a patch for tools/perf/ would be gladly 
> accepted by Ingo, but let him say so :-)

Yeah. We are using -Wall and -Wextra right now - but -Wshadow is not 
turned on by them.

Does gcc ignore non-existent warnings or do we have to probe them in 
the Makefile, to support older versions of GCC?

	Ingo
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