Re: [PATCH v2] commit-slab: declare functions "static inline"

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> This shuts up compiler warnings about unused functions.
>
> If that is the only goal, I think it would be cleaner to use
>
> 	#define MAYBE_UNUSED __attribute__((__unused__))
>
> 	static MAYBE_UNUSED void init_ ...
>
> like was done in the vcs-svn/ directory until cba3546 (drop obj_pool,
> 2010-12-13) et al.
>
> I haven't thought carefully about whether encouraging inlining here
> (or encouraging the reader to think of these functions as inline) is a
> good or bad change.

Hmm.

I actually had this idea after seeing the same trick in khash.h.  Is
__atribute__((__unused__)) universal?  If so, maybe we could apply the
same also to khash?  If not, I'd rather go with the inline.

-- 
Thomas Rast
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