From: Alessandro Rubini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [patch] declaration of `nic' shadows global declaration
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:37:58 +0200
> Maybe the best thing to do is remove "-Wshadow", as it generates zillions
> of those messages. Three of those warnings, outside of the netboot/ dir, depend
> on the curses libs polluting the name space -- a known problem of curses
> and its variations.
I may do that right before releasing a public version, but I don't
want to remove it at the moment.
> Thus, I propose this patch, that renmoves -Wshadow. Also, it would be
> good to add -Wno-unused and -Wno-pointer-arith in the netboot/ dir,
> but I'm not able to do it as I don't (yet) know automake.
This looks like hushing up problems to which you don't want to face
up. Why don't you fix actual causes?
Okuji