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-rw-r--r--tools/scripts/Makefile.include9
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)