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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:31:26 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Adds -Wshadow=local on KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS
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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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