Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> printf-frexp.c evokes a shadowing warning on at least a debian unstable >> system, and now that coreutils uses it (via vasprintf-posix), it causes >> the "make distcheck" build to fail: >> >> printf-frexp.c: In function 'printf_frexp': >> printf-frexp.c:65: error: declaration of 'exp' shadows a global declaration >> /usr/include/bits/mathcalls.h:101: error: shadowed declaration is here >> make[5]: *** [printf-frexp.o] Error 1 > > As always, I remind that gnulib does not support "gcc -Werror".
This is about -Wshadow support, not -Werror. Gnulib *does* support -Wshadow. It just so happens that coreutils uses -Werror to enforce its own no-shadowing-warnings policy. > But since > it's about coreutils and since the parameter name here is a misnomer anyway, > I'm applying this: > > 2007-10-07 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Avoid gcc warnings "declaration of 'exp' shadows a global declaration". ... Thanks.
