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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:03:29 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] -Wshadow: Making the kernel build clean with -Wshadow
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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.

Just my $.02

-- 
Dmitry