[PATCH] D18271: Avoid -Wshadow warnings about constructor parameters named after fields

Nico Weber via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Mar 23 11:25:22 PDT 2016


thakis added a comment.

In http://reviews.llvm.org/D18271#381758, @bcraig wrote:

> In http://reviews.llvm.org/D18271#381744, @thakis wrote:
>
> > FWIW we don't currently use this warning on Chromium because it's way to noisy. So something like this looks like a great change to me.
> >
> > dblaikie, are you aware of any codebases that use this warning in its current form?
>
>
> Not dblaikie, but I've used the GCC version of -Wshadow on reasonably large code bases before.  The ctor pattern that this is trying to squelch was certainly a significant portion of the warnings, particularly when (old) boost headers got involved.
>
> I believe that newer versions of boost (~1.50 and newer?) attempt to be -Wshadow clean in the headers.


Did squelching this ctor pattern find any bugs? Do you know if boost would miss the warning firing in this case?


http://reviews.llvm.org/D18271





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