Re: simplehash.h: "SH_SCOPE static" causes warnings

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 3:30 PM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> Pages of warnings is not ideal, though. We should either support
> "SH_SCOPE static", or have some kind of useful #error that makes it
> clear that we don't support it (and/or don't think it's a good idea).

Fair.

> > I'm not sure that I like the idea of just ignoring the
> > warnings, for fear that the compiler might not actually remove the
> > code for the unused functions from the resulting binary. But I'm not
> > an expert in this area either, so maybe I'm wrong.
>
> In a simple "hello world" test with an unreferenced static function, it
> doesn't seem to be a problem at -O2. I suppose it could be with some
> compiler somewhere, or perhaps in a more complex scenario, but it would
> seem strange to me.

OK.

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