Re: [PATCH] pack-bitmap: drop unused `reuse_objects`

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 11:00:50PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote:

> This variable is no longer used for doing verbatim pack-reuse (or
> anywhere within pack-bitmap.c) since d2ea031046 (pack-bitmap: don't rely
> on bitmap_git->reuse_objects, 2019-12-18).
> 
> Remove it to avoid an unused struct member.

Good catch. This has been sitting unused for quite some time. I wonder
if there is a way to convince the compiler to tell us about unused
struct fields. I guess that would imply a view of the whole linked
program (though in this case the type is local to a single translation
unit). And would probably produce a horrible number of false positives
for structs defined in system headers.

Possibly static analyzers like coverity could help here, but it does not
seem to find this case (or if it did, I could not find it amidst all of
the false positives).

Anyway, your patch is obviously the right thing to do. :)

-Peff




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