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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include index 495066bafbe3..ded7a950dc40 100644 --- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include +++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-system-headers EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wold-style-definition EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpacked EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls -EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wstrict-prototypes EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-enum @@ -69,8 +68,16 @@ endif # will do for now and keep the above -Wstrict-aliasing=3 in place # in newer systems. # Needed for the __raw_cmpxchg in tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h +# +# See https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/28/253 and https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html, +# that takes into account Linus's comments (search for Wshadow) for the reasoning about +# -Wshadow not being interesting before gcc 4.8. + ifneq ($(filter 3.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),) # make-3 EXTRA_WARNINGS += -fno-strict-aliasing +EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wno-shadow +else +EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow endif ifneq ($(findstring $(MAKEFLAGS), w),w) |