Re: [HACKERS] freefuncs.c is never called from anywhere!?

> I was rather bemused to discover just now that the node-freeing
> functions in nodes/freefuncs.c are never called from anywhere;
> in fact, the module hasn't got a single exported entry point!
>
> (I expect that freeObject() is supposed to be an external entry
> point; perhaps it got demoted to a static during one of Bruce's
> periodic get-rid-of-unreferenced-global-symbols passes.)
>
> So much for all that tedious labor to maintain the freeXXX functions
> every time we update a node type ;-)

Are you sure about this? I thought these things were called from
macros.

However, I can't find any macro that uses this like makeNode does with
its pasteing. I would perhaps move it to a _deadcode directory and see
what happens. Or should we enable it?

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