Local variables shadowing other local variables or parameters make the code needlessly hard to understand. Bugs love to hide in such code. Evidence: commit bbde656263d (migration/rdma: Fix save_page method to fail on polling error).
Enable -Wshadow=local to prevent such issues. Possible thanks to recent cleanups. Enabling -Wshadow would prevent more issues, but we're not yet ready for that. As usual, the warning is only enabled when the compiler recognizes it. GCC does, Clang doesn't. Some shadowed locals remain in bsd-user. Since BSD prefers Clang, let's not wait for its cleanup. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> --- meson.build | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index dcef8b1e79..89220443b8 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ warn_flags = [ '-Wno-tautological-type-limit-compare', '-Wno-psabi', '-Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end', + '-Wshadow=local', ] if targetos != 'darwin' -- 2.41.0
