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

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Zeugswetter Andreas SB wrote:

>
> > > (In the same spirit it would also be nice to tag NOT_USED
> > sections with a
> > > version number, so it could be yanked two or three releases past.)
> >
> > Why not just yank it period? 'cvs diff' will show what was
> > yanked, and
> > the log message could say just 'yanked NOT_USED code from
> > source tree'...
>
> Once GetAttributeBy[Num|Name] was yanked, because it was not referenced
> inside the code. It is heavily used in extensions though.
>
> For me it was relatively easy to find the problem, because it was ifdef'd
> NOT_USED.
> I am not sure if I had found it that easily, if the "old" code would have
> only been in cvs.

Maybe date/release stamp a NOT_USED and if after X releases, yank it as
not being relevant ... at least in cases like this ...