Re: Patch to mark items as static or not used

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch to mark items as static or not used
Date: 2006-07-15 04:40:54
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On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 00:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The fundamental problem with find_static is that it hasn't got a clue
> about likely future changes, nor about what we think external add-ons
> might want

We could annotate the source to indicate that some functions are
deliberately intended to be externally visible, but not referenced
within the source tree, and then teach find_static to grok that
annotation.

-Neil

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