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Date:      Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:03:24 +0100
From:      Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r261916 - head/sys/dev/xen/console
Message-ID:  <3D4CA3E5-3B69-4D46-953D-A2C8B051DDFB@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140216035823.I2978@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201402151237.s1FCbRnh000507@svn.freebsd.org> <20140216035823.I2978@besplex.bde.org>

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On 15 Feb 2014, at 18:02, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Dimitry Andric wrote:
...
> Why?  There are hundreds if not thousands of static inline functions in
> headers, and most of these functions are not always used, so there would
> be [hundreds if not thousands] * [number of #includes] compiler warnings
> if compilers warned about things like this.  They could handle include
> files specially, but shouldn't.

Some compilers (e.g. clang 3.4) do warn about this. :-)  If code is
unused, it should be cleaned up, IMHO.  But because I got several
remarks in the past that deleting code might sometimes inconvenience
developers, I prefer to just use #if 0 instead.

For some contributed sources, or sources which have no maintainer or an
unresponsive maintainer, I usually just disable the warning instead.
But that won't clean up the dead code...

-Dimitry


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