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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] Add -Wshadow=local
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 04:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180923040814.27941-1-tom@tromey.com> (raw)

This series enables -Wshadow=local for gdb.

I think that shadowing is mildly confusing, and I normally try to
avoid it.  However, for a long time, it wasn't feasible to enable any
shadowing warnings, because gcc would warn about shadowing that was
"uninteresting" -- the classic example being the use of a local
variable named "index".

In this series I chose to use -Wshadow=local, to forbid shadowing
within a function.  -Wshadow=compatible-local is another choice, but I
think that the stated semantics:

    In C++, type compatibility here means the type of the shadowing
    variable can be converted to that of the shadowed variable.

... is maybe insufficient.  For example a situation where the two
different types are both convertible to a third type could be enough
to cause a bug.  That's a bit of a reach maybe, but it seemed to me
that it's not such a big deal, and certainly always safer, to just
disallow shadowing entirely.

Adding this warning found a few latent bugs in gdb.

Regression tested by the buildbot.  Thanks, Sergio, for your work
running this -- it is a great service.

Let me know what you think.  I feel that a change like this should
involve some feedback.

Tom



             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-23  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-23  4:08 Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] Fix latent bug in msp430-tdep.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:10   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] Use std::string in mdebugread.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:27   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] Add -Wshadow=local Tom Tromey
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] Avoid shadowing in gdbserver Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:19   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] Avoid shadowing in linux-tdep.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:50   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] Avoid shadowing in fdwalk Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:54   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] Shadowing fix in gdbscm_frame_read_var Tom Tromey
     [not found]   ` <6d098a36-c483-77b8-61a6-87768c29f5d5@ericsson.com>
2018-10-04 12:44     ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-23  4:09 ` [PATCH 1/8] Simple -Wshadow=local fixes Tom Tromey
2018-10-04  3:36   ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-04 12:22     ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-04 12:43       ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/8] Add -Wshadow=local Simon Marchi
     [not found]   ` <c0393dbe-9dbe-837a-b93d-7c2825ef3649@ericsson.com>
     [not found]     ` <04748d1d-0fe6-76ad-31f1-68657f8e0d56@redhat.com>
2018-10-03 17:53       ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-05  4:57         ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-05  9:06           ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-05 11:14             ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-05 13:37             ` [SPAM] " Tom Tromey
2018-10-05 15:58               ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-12  5:25 ` Kevin Buettner

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