Hello everyone,

On the supr of the moment, while reading Project Ideas page on GDB wiki,
I've decided to undertake the task of making compilation with -Wshadow
flag possible (seeing how that is a simple task for a person unfamiliar
with gdb's code base). So, having configured the code with
gcc.gnu.org
CFLAGS="-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -Wshadow -Werror
-ansi" ./configure

I rummaged through it and fixed all naming clashes.
In the attachment to this letter is a 1st in the series of 17 patches.
The majority of the changes is related to fixing -Wshadow caused errors
with two or three fixes related to -Werror and -ansi flags.

A couple of quick questions:

- What is the common way(etiquette?) of sending a series patches to this
  list? Do I send them all at once or do I wait 'till the end of
  discussion about the first one?

- Does the part of MAINTAINERS file about patches to libiberty,
  libdecnumber and intl needing to be sent to GCC still holds true or
  should I send them to this list?  Bfd and binutils?

- In case the patches got applied and building with -Wshadow is working
  would it be possible to add aforementioned CFLAGS to the set of
  default ones?

Andrey Smirnov

P.S. Forgot to mention that I checked for regressions by running 'make
check' and, to the best of my knowledge, fixed all that have been cased by
my patches.