Re: [PATCH] Make gcc3.3 Eliminate Unused Static Functions

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:04:56 -0400

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> does that mean the current linux source tree does not benefit in any way
> from this patch?

I suspect that currently all such instances are wrapped in #ifdef and are not
currently compiled in. As he said in the original message, "it'd be nice to
discard unused functions (think CONFIG_PROC_FS=n) without needing to #ifdef
around them."

This would allow us to remove those #ifdefs.

Chris

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