Re: Patch to mark items as static or not used

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:34:57AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
> >We could annotate the source to indicate that some functions are
> >deliberately intended to be externally visible, but not referenced
> >within the source tree, and then teach find_static to grok that
> >annotation.
>
> I thought of that, but what if one gets missed? Is the tool worth the
> hassle?

The tool is just a tool. The annotation is so that some human won't
come to the conclusion that it can be removed. Teaching the tool to
skip it is just a bonus.

Some places mark external functions with DLLEXPORT but I guess we could
invent a comment that would be machine readable.

Have a nice day,
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