Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 04:02:55 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: getting to -Wunused Message-ID: <199812061702.EAA23009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> (i) Some of these are defined #ifdef DDB, and are clearly meant >> for debugging purposes (they're not used, but they're handy >> to call from the debugger to print out stuff, etc). These >> are "legitimate" unused functions. > >I think those should not be defined `static'. If they are meant to >be called from within DDB, it's necessary to maintain a globally >unique function name anyway, so why having it `static'? Mainly because they show up as noise in staticness checkers such as kernxref.sh. Anyway, _all_ functions should have globally unique names so that they can be referenced from within ddb. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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