Re: [RFC] clang: 'unused-function' warning on static inline functions

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

El Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:28:03PM -0700 Linus Torvalds ha dit:

> I applied the patch from David Rientjes to just make "inline"
> automatically mean "maybe unused" for clang.

Unfortunately as is the patch doesn't work:

include/linux/compiler-clang.h:20:9: error: 'inline' macro redefined [-Werror,-Wmacro-redefined]
#define inline inline __attribute__((unused))
        ^
include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:78:9: note: previous definition is here
#define inline          inline          notrace

Another version of David's patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/24/878)
first undefines 'inline' before redefining it:

#ifdef inline
#undef inline
#define inline inline __attribute__((unused))
#endif

This works at least in the sense of not causing compiler errors. I
couldn't validate if it actually still indicates the compiler to
inline a function, since in any case 'inline' is only a
recommendation. In the few experiments I did without the patch clang
didn't make a difference between static inline and non-inline
functions.

The redefinition above could be used to fix the build error, however
it would imply to lose the extra attributes from compiler-gcc.h.