Re: [PATCH 1/4] Adds -Wshadow=local on KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:21:01PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> scripts/Makefile.extrawarn provides options for the target compiler (CC),
> whereas this patch adds -Wshadow=local for the host compiler (HOSTCC).

Aha, this wants to fix shadowing for the host tools, ok.

Next question: why not -Wshadow simply?

Also, -Wshadow for the target compiler is an extra warning (W=2). Why is
it enabled by default here?

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    Boris.

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