Bug 142800 - 8 * function declared but never referenced
Summary: 8 * function declared but never referenced
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bash
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-14 08:55 UTC by David Binderman
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-12-14 10:18:10 UTC
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Description David Binderman 2004-12-14 08:55:27 UTC
Description of problem:

I just tried to compile package bash-3.0-25 from 
Redhat Fedora development tree.

The compiler said

./parse.y(4455): remark #177: function "discard_parser_constructs" was
declared
but never referenced
variables.c(1002): remark #177: function "null_assign" was declared
but never referenced
subst.c(184): remark #177: function "quoted_substring" was declared
but never referenced
subst.c(185): remark #177: function "quoted_strlen" was declared but
never referenced
subst.c(219): remark #177: function "mb_getcharlens" was declared but
never referenced
subst.c(239): remark #177: function "variable_remove_pattern" was
declared but never referenced
./ulimit.def(711): remark #177: function "set_all_limits" was declared
but never referenced
readline.c(872): remark #177: function "reset_default_bindings" was
declared but never referenced

Suggest delete dead code.


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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-12-14 10:18:10 UTC
parse.y: can't do anything about generated code
variables.c: for *this* particular set of build parameter, the function is not
called, but for some cases (without ARRAY_VARS for instance) it is.

For subst.c, you'll find that the functions are inside INCLUDE_UNUSED -- try
compiling without that.

Also don't forget that bash provides support for extension modules dynamically
loaded at runtime.

Tip: when you file bug reports about compiler warnings, it pays to look at the
code in question first.  You might find that the warnings are bogus.



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