Re: [PATCH] efi: Resolve some shadow warnings

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 10:03 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Sep, at 06:34:52PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > It is a really bad idea to declare variables or parameters that
> > have the same name as common types. It is valid C, but it gets
> > surprising if a macro expansion attempts to declare an inner
> > local with that type. Change the local names to eliminate the
> > hazard.
>  
> Oops, good catch. Could you include a copy of the compiler shadow
> warnings in the commit log? I'm guessing this bug is highlighted with
> -Wshadow? How did you discover this problem?

Mark was using W=2 to see the warning, so I will see if I can wade
through the numerous warnings that get generated with W=2 for the
specific warning.

> 
> > Change s16 => ps16, s8 => ps8.
>  
> Hmm... Instead, could you change it to str16 and str8? s8/s16 were
> clearly misguided names in the first place, and it's not immediatealy
> obvious to me that a 'ps16' would represent "pointer to 16-bit string".
> 

Ok, I can re-spin the patch for Mark, that is if I can capture the
original warning to add to his commit message.  Otherwise, I will wait
till Monday to have Mark re-spin the patch.

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