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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
