On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:22:18 -0200 Lucas De Marchi
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Stefan Schmidt
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On 19/11/12 13:10, Enlightenment SVN wrote:
> >> Log:
> >> evas: Fix shadow warnings
> >>
> >>    x1, x2 shadow something in the math library.
> >>
> >>    Would probably be better to turn off -Wshadow, but for some
> >>    reason people think this there's some value in it...
> >
> > I agree that the x1, x2, y1, etc warnings from the math lib are
> > annoying. Sometimes the shadow warnings show problematic code
> > though.
> >
> > I'm open for suggesting what warning flags we want to have as
> > default for buildbot. If people agree (I know there is no such
> > thing as universal agreement here on the list) that we should just
> > skip -Wshadow I'm fine with changing the buildbot builds that way.
> 
> 
> Use a compile that works fine with that option?  There's no reason for
> a compiler to throw a warning if a variable named "x2" shadows a
> function or another entity. gcc >= 4.7 seems to get this right (I'm
> not sure which exactly version that became true, but I think it's gcc
> 4.7 indeed).
> 
> Related rant from Linus back in 2006:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/239

I fully agree with Linus on that.

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