On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org wrote:
On 18-05-17, 16:51, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I find that a lot of users get the #ifdef wrong, either using the wrong macro (CONFIG_PM vs CONFIG_PM_SLEEP) or not using the right set of functions (e.g. calling a function only from the suspend handler).
The __maybe_unused annotation avoids both problems and also gives better build time coverage, so that's what I tend to use.
Thanks for the explanation Arnd. I hope these unused routines will not be part of the binary that gets generated. Right?
Correct. Ancient compilers (gcc-4.1) had a bug where a function would still be part of the binary if the only reference to it was from a function pointer that got dropped through dead code elimination, but that is not the case here, and those old compilers are not used in real life any more either.
Arnd