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Date:      Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:35:25 +0200
From:      Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        mdf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r209119 - head/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <20100613203524.GA1736@mole.fafoe.narf.at>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik2X_x6cNsLWQTNqDHuN69IZgyMnM--0vhp36xk@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201006130239.o5D2du3m086332@svn.freebsd.org> <20100613101025.GD1320@garage.freebsd.pl> <AANLkTik2X_x6cNsLWQTNqDHuN69IZgyMnM--0vhp36xk@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 01:59:11PM +0000, mdf@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> (Relevant but almost a thread hijack):
> 
> At Isilon we've run into a lot of problems with variable declarations
> in macros, especially with -Wshadow turned on.  We ended up
> backporting __COUNTER__ from later versions of gcc and then using it
> to make unique variable names.
> 
>  - is the backport (or a fresh implementation) something that could be
> done within the scope of the GPL license?
>  - is it something FreeBSD would be interested in?
>  - is __COUNTER__ supported by clang?
>  - if not, could it be?
> 
> -Wshadow found several nasty bugs in our code, and apart from a few
> spurious warnings it has been handy to have when building our
> filesystem.

In my opinion using non-standard C features just to work around warnings
is a bit questionable.  A more useful feature would be an attribute that
avoids -Wshadow warnings.

Regards,
Stefan



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