Re: [RFC PATCH v2 22/22] softmmu/physmem: Clean up local variable shadowing

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 05:31:30PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:12:34PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Fix:
> > 
> >   softmmu/physmem.c: In function ‘cpu_physical_memory_snapshot_and_clear_dirty’:
> >   softmmu/physmem.c:916:27: warning: declaration of ‘offset’ shadows a parameter [-Wshadow=compatible-local]
> >     916 |             unsigned long offset = page % DIRTY_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE;
> >         |                           ^~~~~~
> >   softmmu/physmem.c:892:31: note: shadowed declaration is here
> >     892 |     (MemoryRegion *mr, hwaddr offset, hwaddr length, unsigned client)
> >         |                        ~~~~~~~^~~~~~
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > RFC: Please double-check how 'offset' is used few lines later.
> 
> I don't see an issue - those lines are in an outer scope, so won't
> be accessing the 'offset' you've changed, they'll be the parameter
> instead. If you want to sanity check though, presumably the asm
> dissassembly for this method should be the same before/after this
> change

(and if it didn't do so then it's a bug..)

> 
> > ---
> >  softmmu/physmem.c | 10 +++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu