On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 01:59:11PM +0000, m...@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 _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
