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From: <Paul_Koning@Dell.com>
To: <howarth.mailing.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: <palves@redhat.com>, <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: many unused function warnings in gdb 7.9 on darwin
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <024299DE-C682-4DB4-B1A1-FCF89C969C27@dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADtEn-1SF9Q_XE+wTwjpB-Zny4UEU5kCiPcXnUjf-8X4hmfd+A@mail.gmail.com>


> On Feb 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth.mailing.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The clang developers have comments on this issue in
> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22712#c1. They ask (as I did
> originally) why we aren't wrapping these functions to keep them from
> being declared on darwin if they aren't used.

I can think of a good reason: they are used as cleaner replacements for macros, defined in header files.  So they are used in some files that include those headers, but not others.  That’s why GCC has that rule about not warning if the function is static inline.

	paul


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-24 16:33 Jack Howarth
2015-02-26 16:48 ` Pedro Alves
2015-02-26 17:03   ` Jack Howarth
2015-02-26 19:59     ` Jack Howarth
2015-02-26 20:21       ` Paul_Koning [this message]
2015-02-27  9:13         ` Pedro Alves

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