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
# 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)