Re: Overkill - Declaration of 'XXX' shadows a member of 'this'
Re: Overkill - Declaration of 'XXX' shadows a member of 'this'
- Subject: Re: Overkill - Declaration of 'XXX' shadows a member of 'this'
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:20:44 -0600
On 16 Feb 2010, at 5:19 AM, Matt Gough wrote:
> I just turned on GCC_WARN_SHADOW in the hope of finding those rare occasions where a local var shadows another local var at a higher scope and the 'wrong' one gets used. What I didn't expect were the 8000 warnings along the lines of 'Declaration of 'XXX' shadows a member of 'this' .
>
> What is really annoying is that its not complaining about member variables, but method names.
>
> E.g:
>
> class MyClass {
> public:
> int cheeseType() const {return _cheeseType;}
> void setCheeseType(int cheeseType) <==== Declaration of 'cheeseType' shadows a member of 'this'
> {_cheeseType = cheeseType;}
>
> private:
> int _cheeseType;
> }
This is a perfectly reasonable warning, isn't it? Isn't this->cheeseType a pointer to a member function? I wouldn't expect that to be suppressible.
— F
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