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authorPavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>2017-05-10 19:48:24 +0200
committerPavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>2017-05-10 19:48:24 +0200
commitf203ecc621c0af594c43c7fce8a765a8259e3b43 (patch)
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downloadbitcoin-f203ecc621c0af594c43c7fce8a765a8259e3b43.tar.xz
Shadowing is not enabled by default, update doc accordingly.
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@@ -343,10 +343,9 @@ Strings and formatting
Variable names
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-The shadowing warning (`-Wshadow`) is enabled by default. It prevents issues rising
-from using a different variable with the same name.
-
-Please name variables so that their names do not shadow variables defined in the source code.
+Although the shadowing warning (`-Wshadow`) is not enabled by default (it prevents issues rising
+from using a different variable with the same name),
+please name variables so that their names do not shadow variables defined in the source code.
E.g. in member initializers, prepend `_` to the argument name shadowing the
member name: