Re: [PULL 00/10] Bitmaps patches

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 03:07:34PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 15:05, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 03:00:48PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 14:57, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > I don't feel like -Wno-unused-function looses anything significant, as
> > > > the GCC builds will still be reporting unused functions which will
> > > > catch majority of cases.
> > >
> > > The most interesting difference is that clang will catch unused
> > > static inline functions which gcc does not.
> >
> > That's mostly just about dead code cruft detection IIUC. That code won't
> > make it into the binary if it isn't used.
> 
> Indeed, but it's nice to have the dead code cruft detection. You
> can always mark the function as __attribute__((unused)) if you really
> mean that it might be present but not used.

The *BSDs  seem to track latest glib pretty quickly. So if we got the
unused attribute into upstream glib, we would probably have about
6-9 months before we get a build platform with the fixed glib included
where we can conditionally re-enable the unused-function warning.


Regards,
Daniel
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