Re: [patch] compiler, clang: suppress warning for unused static inline functions

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Thu May 25 2017 - 13:49:29 EST


Hi Joe,

El Thu, May 25, 2017 at 09:48:53AM -0700 Joe Perches ha dit:

> On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 09:14 -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > clang doesn't raise
> > warnings about unused static inline functions in headers.
>
> Is any "#include" file a "header" to clang or only "*.h" files?
>
> For instance:
>
> The kernel has ~500 .c files that other .c files #include.
> Are unused inline functions in those .c files reported?

Any "#include" file is a "header" to clang, no warnings are generated
for unused inline functions in included .c files.